Elon Musk tweeted an image of the first tunnel his Boring Company is drilling under Los Angeles to demonstrate his progress toward integrating Tesla, Hyperloop, the Gigafactory, and SpaceX. The ultimate goal: “Transportation-as-a-Service.”
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk camped out on the roof of his “Gigafactory” this week after hundreds of workers were fired from Tesla and its subsidiary SolarCity.
CEO Elon Musk announced Friday that SpaceX is going all-in for interplanetary commuting to Mars by developing its next-generation rocket, called BFR (short for Big F***king Rocket).
Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed a new project he believes could revolutionize travel: city-to-city rocket transport system.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX chief Elon Musk’s elaborate plan for a mega-rocket to carry astronauts to Mars may have some down-to-Earth applications.
The SpaceX founder tweeted a video entitled “How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster,” after teasing the “blooper reel” last week.
North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed the competition for artificial intelligence superiority would be the cause of the next world war in a series of tweets over the weekend.
Elon Musk is trying to raise $100 million to launch a manufacturer of nice cyborgs that do not become Terminators.
16 of the world’s richest billionaires have investments in space exploration, according to a new report from Bloomberg Technology.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is trying to crank up support for his $120 billion escape mission to Mars by claiming robots with artificial intelligence are a bigger threat than North Korea.
Hyperloop One may have just killed California’s high-speed rail project, after the company’s 28-foot long aluminum and carbon-fiber production-scale pod hit its first milestone by traveling down a 1,640-foot near-zero-resistance vacuum tube test-track at a speed of 70 miles-per-hour.
SpaceX has taken over the launch duties for the U.S. Air Force’s top-secret X-37B “Spaceplane” and will power the experimental vehicle into space within two months.
California’s Space X and Boeing are going ballistic in a race to dominate the deployment of up to 30,000 low-orbit 5G communications satellites over the next decade.
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin spoke at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C. this week where he urged NASA to defund the International Space Station in order to dedicate more resources to exploring Mars.
The California taxman wants add to taxes on space travel on top of taxing land, buildings, businesses, income, transportation and the air we breathe.
Elon Musk entertained the 2017 TED Conference by previewing how Tesla intends to solve almost all vehicle congestion by massive boring under cities to create an all-electrical tunnel transport system.
SpaceX completed a successful mission lift-off Thursday of a used Falcon 9 booster rocket, landing it successfully once again on a platform in the ocean.
In a feature on Tuesday, CNBC explained how the Chinese government plans to overtake the US space program, as well as private companies such as SpaceX.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX said Monday it will fly two people to the moon next year, a feat not attempted since NASA’s Apollo heyday close to half a century ago.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suffered huge blow-back after he lit up the blogosphere by tweeting that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson “has the potential to be an excellent Sec of State.”
Moon Express, the first commercial company to win Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to travel beyond Earth’s orbit, announced that it has raised enough money for its first launch later this year to begin mining on the moon.
SpaceX blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion that destroyed Israel’s Amos-6 satellite in September.
When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.
Billionaire Elon Musk plans to launch thousands of satellites into space through his company SpaceX in order to provide the entire planet with high speed Internet access.
Mars is the destination for the next space race, and unlike the first round in the Cold War, this one will be between private companies, not countries.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plan for “bold moves by private enterprise” to colonize Mars, beginning in 2022, at his keynote speech this week for the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will officially launch “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species” on Tuesday, September 27, when gives a keynote speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Israel’s Space Communications Ltd and Beijing Xinwei Technology Group have given themselves 30 days to salvage a deal that was contingent on the launch of a satellite destroyed in an explosion last week.
The chief executive of Israeli satellite operator Space Communication Ltd said on Tuesday he wants to see “several safe flights” from SpaceX before using Elon Musk’s space firm again to launch one of his company’s satellites.
The Israeli government must finally lay out a clearly defined national space policy, based on the understanding that dependence on foreign infrastructure for Internet, television and phone communications represents a significant vulnerability, a senior space expert said.
Israel’s Space Communication Ltd said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX’s Florida launch site.
SpaceX is scouring computer and video data for clues to the devastating launch pad explosion that destroyed a rocket and its Israeli satellite payload.
An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive explosion rocked a SpaceX launch pad Thursday during a routine rocket test for a planned weekend launch.
Silicon Valley has been suffering a tech IPO drought, but the dam may have broken after data software company Talend, Inc. jumped 42 percent on its first day of trading. Talend raised $94.5 million in its July 29 initial public
A SpaceX rocket prompted a wave of 911 calls after it created a series of sonic booms while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere at around 1am on Monday.
By cutting future commercial space flight costs by a third with their successful landing of a spent first-stage vehicle on a barge in the Atlantic, SpaceX just ignited an economic space boom that will be the defining feature of the
The December 21 reusable recovery of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has improved the economics of commercial activity in space, but it has fundamentally changed the military balance of power and, perhaps inadvertently, launched the era of space militarization.
Commercial spaceflight company SpaceX enjoyed a triumphal moment this evening, conducting its first-ever landing of a Falcon 9 rocket on dry land after a successful launch on Monday. Livestreams from SpaceX’s headquarters showed employees breaking into cheers as the rocket touched down
