After years of resisting the idea, Elon Musk is expected to take SpaceX public in 2026. The IPO could be the largest IPO in U.S. history, and has the potential to raise $30 billion. SpaceX is already ...

Everyone’s talking about colonizing Mars… but what if the real plan B is even more extreme? Today we challenge everything you ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

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NASA once had an official plan to colonize Mars — complete with timelines, tech, and ambitions to build humanity’s first off-world base. So what happened? In this episode, we dive into declassified ...

The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same ...

Elon Musk revealed to Fox News’ Jesse Watters that his desire to colonize Mars stems from wanting to get the entire human race a “life insurance” policy. “Mars is life insurance for life collectively, ...

The New York Times reported Elon Musk had volunteered his sperm as part of SpaceX's plans to build a city on the red planet.

If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has the final say. In a recent interview on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime, ...

Before he got into talking about the Interplanetary Transport System, Musk explained why Mars would be the ideal target for human colonization efforts instead of the moon, for instance. While Mars is ...

With the help of his space company’s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the “long-term survival of consciousness” by ferrying a million settlers to permanent ...