Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity
For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office,…
Live Video: Watch SpaceX Return Starship to the Launchpad for Its 8th Test Flight
Starship — the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — is back on a launch mount in South Texas and ready for its eighth…
Why NASA Is Trying to Go Back to the Moon
NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight program during his first term.…
Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media
Tesla became the latest part of Elon Musk’s business empire to make it clear that criticism of the chief executive is unacceptable by firing a manager last month after he…
How to Watch the Launch of Intuitive Machines’s Second Moon Landing Mission
Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? When the spacecraft, named Odysseus, set…
Comparing Elon Musk and Jack Welch as Influential Cost-Cutters
And while the two were both politically conservative, Welch was more of a country-club Republican, partial to golf and no fan — at least earlier on — of Donald Trump.…
Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on…
Elon Musk Is Focused on DOGE. What About Tesla?
Elon Musk’s role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar and his immersion in right-wing politics appears to be diverting his attention from Tesla at a perilous moment for the electric car…
Trump Urged to Halt Firings at the FAA
The Trump administration is facing pressure to protect the Federal Aviation Administration from further layoffs after hundreds of workers were fired over the weekend. The job cuts were part of…
State Dept. Suspends Plan to Buy Armored Vehicles From Elon Musk’s Tesla
The State Department said Thursday that it had put plans to buy armored electric vehicles on hold after reports that the $400 million order would go to Tesla, whose chief…