SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the backburner to prioritize establishing a settlement on the Moon, founder Elon Musk said Sunday. The South Africa-born ...

Mars colonization is often sold as humanity’s backup plan, but survival there would push settlers to the edge of endurance.

A crane, marked by the SpaceX logo, sits near the Starbase launch site in Cameron County, Texas, on February 6, 2026. Credit - Reginald Mathalone—NurPhoto SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that ...

SpaceX incentivizes Musk to create a million-person colony on Mars. But in his lifetime, that’s not realistic.

The first four words of the phrase "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" seem to sum up Elon Musk to a tee. Musk owns companies such as Tesla and SpaceX — or at least has a significant stake ...