Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X: "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire and is undergoing final preparations for the ninth flight test."

Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring humanity's longterm survival.

Landing on Mars is one of the biggest challenges in space exploration, and SpaceX’s Starship is designed to make it happen. But how exactly will it work? From atmospheric entry and braking maneuvers to landing on the Martian surface,

A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint out into the solar system — specifically to Mars, which is the most suitable and reachable target — so that we won't go extinct if something bad should happen to Earth.

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week after the U.S. administration released its proposed budget for the agency, which emphasizes the national goal of landing a human on Mars.

The White House says NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is a waste of money, but experts say the mission could help it achieve its goal of putting humans on Mars.

With the development of SpaceX’s Starship, this dream is looking more like reality than ever before. Yet the question remains—can Starship finally make Mars colonization feasible, or is it ...

The White House proposed cuts for all NASA programs except "Human Space Exploration," boosted by $647 million, with more than $1 billion for Mars programs.