SpaceX

Entrepreneur and business magnate, Elon Musk is the CEO and founder of the aerospace company SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors. He also hopes to change the world, advancing private spaceflight with the aim of landing humans on other planets like Mars, and developing a new tube-transport system called the Hyperloop. Live Science will keep you up on Musk’s latest ideas and developments so you can keep your two feet on Earth while looking up at the stars.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy: What's Up with the Giant Rocket?

By Jeanna Bryner

A humongous rocket is about to launch into space today (Feb. 6), if all goes as planned, according to SpaceX.

The 27 engines of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket are front and center during assembly in this photo tweeted by Elon Musk on Dec. 20, 2017.

What Is the Point of Elon Musk's Big Rocket?

By Rafi Letzter

The hype around the launch of SpaceX's new rocket is reaching epic proportions. But is it all just PR for Elon Musk?

SpaceX plans to launch its huge new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time on Feb. 6, 2018, during a 3-hour window that opens up at 1:30 p.m. EST. It is the most powerful U.S. rocket since NASA's Saturn V. The booster is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket: By the Numbers

By Doris Elin Salazar

To gain a fuller understanding of Falcon Heavy's caliber and the ambitions behind the SpaceX launch, it is worthwhile to look at the numbers.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Megarocket Gets 1st Test Launch Today: Watch It Live

By Sarah Lewin

SpaceX's giant new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, is set for its risky first test launch today (Feb. 6) from the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Watch SpaceX's Elon Musk Play with a Flamethrower (Video)

By Mike Wall

Billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a new line of flamethrowers for his tunneling project, The Boring Company, with a wild Instagram video.

A launchpad photo provided by SpaceX shows the Falcon 9 carrying Zuma

Wild Rumors Fly as Pentagon Shuts Down Questions on Secretive 'Zuma' Mission

By Rafi Letzter

It's been perhaps the weirdest week of news and mysteries in the history of private spaceflight. And it's ending in a swirl of confusion, silence, and whispers at the Pentagon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government launches Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Jan. 7, 2018 in this still from a SpaceX video.

In Photos: SpaceX Rocket Launches Secret Zuma Spacecraft

By Christine Lunsford

What Happened to Zuma? What We Know About Secret SpaceX Mission

By Rafi Letzter

Something weird is going on with a classified SpaceX payload launched Sunday night (Jan. 7), codenamed Zuma.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the secret Zuma spacecraft streaks into space and the booster's first stage returns to Earth (background) in this long-exposure view of their night launch on Jan. 7, 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Strange Sky Spiral May Come from Secretive SpaceX Zuma Launch

By Tariq Malik

Is this ethereal spiral in the night sky the upper stage of the secret satellite launched by the U.S. government?

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's midnight cherry red Tesla Roadster, which will be launched into space on the first Falcon Heavy rocket test flight, is seen before encapsulation inside its protective payload fairing. SpaceX's debut Falcon Heavy rocket will launch i

Tourist Snaps Sneak Peek of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Payload Fairing in Florida

By Calla Cofield

A lucky visitor to NASA's Kennedy Space Center snapped a photo of the payload container that will fly aboard SpaceX's new megarocket, the Falcon Heavy.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Next satellites on Dec. 22, 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in a dazzling liftoff just after sunset. Space.com managing editor captured this cell phone view from the I-5 freeway in Ir

SpaceX's Jaw-Dropping Rocket Launch Wows Spectators Across Southern California

By Tariq Malik

Elon Musk Wants Giant SpaceX Spaceship to Fly People to Mars by 2024

By Mike Wall

SpaceX's Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin Announcing Updated Mars Plans Tonight

By Mike Wall

Tonight (Sept. 28), SpaceX and Lockheed Martin will unveil their latest plans for getting people to Mars.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Blooper Reel: 'It's Just a Scratch'

By Laura Geggel

Get ready for out-of-this-world fiery blasts on "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster," a new SpaceX blooper reel produced by Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO.