Could humans be heading to Mars in the 2030s? Here's how Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch Starship on a mission to colonize the Red Planet.

Meanwhile, Musk and Thiel have been close for well over a decade. Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa, the same country where Thiel went to school in the '70s. Thiel co-founded PayPal and served as its CEO, while Musk was chief product architect. Thiel was also an early investor in SpaceX and Tesla.

In 2023, he made headlines when Elon Musk’s SpaceX hired him at just 14 years old, a “rare company,” Quazi said at the time, that didn’t use his age as an “arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.”

Starbase, which Texas voters in Cameron County approved in May to become its own town, attracted some controversy in June when commissioners with the city of Starbase voted unanimously to close several of the city’s public streets to outsiders, angering longtime residents and property owners.

The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of benefiting from billions in U.S. government contracts while paying little to no federal taxes. Warren Accuses Musk Of Dodging Taxes On Monday,

SpaceX achieved a significant milestone in 2025, launching its 100th Falcon 9 mission, deploying 24 Starlink satellites and expanding its constellatio

SpaceX officials have privately boasted to investors that a tax benefit signed into law by President Donald Trump means it may never have to pay federal income taxes, The New York Times reports. Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017,

Kairan Quazi, a teenage prodigy of Bangladeshi origin, became an engineer at Elon Musk’s SpaceX at 14. Now 16, he has announced that he will be joining Citadel Securities in New York as a global trading infrastructure engineer.

There’s a new warning tucked into the tender offer for Elon Musk’s SpaceX: The billionaire may not be done with politics just yet.