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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Artist's illustration of a SpaceX colony ship arriving at Mars. The company aims to help establish a million-person city on the Red Planet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'll Fly to Mars with SpaceX, After Elon Musk Sends His Mom

By Mike Wall published

Neil deGrasse Tyson is willing to fly to Mars with SpaceX, as long as company founder and CEO Elon Musk meets a few key conditions.

Artist's illustration of an atom chip for use by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), which will use lasers to cool atoms to ultracold temperatures. CAL is scheduled to launch to the space station in August 2017.

Space Station to Host Coldest Spot in the Universe

By Elizabeth Howell published

SpaceX will launch two paying passengers on a private flight around the moon in late 2018, the company's founder Elon Musk said Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. The mission would launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy seen here in this artist's illustration and take about

SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018

By Calla Cofield published

SpaceX, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, will launch two paying customers on a week-long trip around the moon and back to Earth in 2018.

Elon Musk at Tesla Design Studio

Cyborg Future? Elon Musk's Plan to Compete with AI

By Kacey Deamer published

Elon Musk thinks human cyborgs could counter the threat from artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and founder of SpaceX.

SpaceX's Elon Musk Seeks Twitter Help to Change Trump Immigration Order

By Hanneke Weitering published

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Elon Musk Sees Brain-Computer Systems in Humans' Future

By Kacey Deamer published

Elon Musk has a plan to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence.

Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.

The Future of Space: Top Issues Facing President-Elect Donald Trump

By Mike Wall published

Here's a look at some of the most pressing space issues that President-elect Trump may face, from the direction of NASA's human-spaceflight program to the regulation of asteroid mining.

A large rocket engine blasts a jet of fire horizontally.

Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX Raptor Engine Test for Interplanetary Transport

By Sarah Lewin published

Last night (Sept. 25), SpaceX's Raptor interplanetary transport engine fired for the first time, according to a series of tweets from the company's CEO, Elon Musk.

SpaceX Rocket Explosion Kennedy Webcam

Launchpad Explosion Destroys SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, Satellite in Florida

By Tariq Malik published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket appears to have exploded on its Florida launch pad early Thursday (Sept. 1), just days ahead of a planned weekend liftoff of a commercial satellite.

MIT's Hyperloop Pod Design

MIT Team Wins SpaceX Hyperloop Design Contest

By Elizabeth Howell published

Elon Musk at AGU Conference

The World Needs a Carbon Tax, Elon Musk Says

By Mike Wall published

The lack of a carbon tax amounts to a hidden subsidy that incentivizes "bad behavior," Musk said Tuesday (Dec. 15) at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, in San Francisco.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft broke up shortly after liftoff on June 28. The craft disappeared behind a cloud of smoke and left behind bits of falling debris.

SpaceX Rocket Fails During Cargo Launch to Space Station

By Mike Wall published

Hyperloop Capsule in Tube Cutaway

Elon Musk Wants Your Hyperloop Designs

By Tia Ghose published

Elon Musk's company has announced a new competition to build pods for the futuristic Hyperloop transit system.

Hyperloop Passenger Transport Capsule Conceptual Design Rendering

Elon Musk Reveals Test Site for Futuristic 'Hyperloop' System

By Elizabeth Palermo published

The Lone Star state could soon be the new testing ground for the most futuristic transportation system in the world.

Elon Musk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AeroAstro 100 conference on Oct. 24, 2014.

Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat'

By Miriam Kramer published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches an unmanned Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station on the company's third delivery flight for NASA on April 18, 2014. SpaceX will launch its fourth cargo mission for NASA on Sept. 20.

Pre-dawn SpaceX Launch on Saturday Visible Along US East Coast

By Joe Rao, Astronomer published

Tesla Model S Sedan.

Free for All: Tesla Motors Makes Electric Car Patents Open Source

By Denise Chow published

In a bold move, Tesla Motors is making all the patents for the company's electric car technology free and available for anyone to use.

Elon Musk unveils the Dragon V2 space capsule on May 29, 2014, during a press briefing at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Elon Musk's Vision: 5 Innovative Ideas That Could Change the World

By Tia Ghose published

From the Hyperloop to the futuristic Dragon V2 spacecraft, here are some of the most visionary, and audacious, ideas from inventor Elon Musk.

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In Images: The Dragon V2 Spacecraft

By Tia Ghose published

The sleek new space pod dreamed up by inventor Elon Musk can land and takeoff vertically and can withstand mutliple trips.

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Pew! Pew! Pew! Space Station Laser to Beam HD Video to Earth

By Nola Taylor Redd published

Information gathered by planetary and deep space craft may soon be streaming back to Earth in the form of a laser rather than by radio waves.