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One of the biggest impediments to traveling across the galaxy, or to a nearby star, is that our spacecraft can't carry enough fuel to cross light years of ever-expanding space. But a new technology that is heading up into orbit tonight onboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket could help eliminate that obstacle to interstellar travel. LightSail…

Late Thursday night, SpaceX launched an experimental rocket ship known as Starhopper into the air for the first time— but the launch produced more fiery excitement than anyone bargained for. Starhopper is a test-bed for a much larger launch system called Starship, which the company is designing to send people to the moon and Mars.…

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, addressed planet Earth on Saturday night about his latest plans to "extend consciousness beyond Earth" using a towering steel spaceship. Standing between two rockets that represented both the future of SpaceX and its nail-biting past, Musk delivered his talk to more than 100 people from the company's…

The business end of the SpaceX Starship hopper prototype. Elon Musk/SpaceX It's a very long way to Mars, but Elon Musk and his SpaceX Starship are moving quick to get there. Or at least to get a little closer to the Red Planet. In August, a single-engine Starship prototype dubbed Starhopper made an impressive but…

After what SpaceX's founder Elon Musk called an "embarrassing" glitch with Starhopper, an experimental rocket ship, the company pulled off an impressive launch and landing on Tuesday. "Congrats SpaceX team!!" Musk tweeted shortly after the attempt. "One day Starship will land on the rusty sands of Mars." Starhopper is a roughly 60-foot-tall (18 meters) vehicle…

NASA astronaut Bob Behnken simulates a Crew Dragon launch at SpaceX headquarters. NASA We might not get to see astronauts fly in a SpaceX Crew Dragon until next year, but preparations for that highly anticipated test flight are underway, including a recent space fashion show.  OK, so there was no catwalk or runway strutting, but…

Space X is developing a new rocket system called Starship at the southern tip of Texas. After building and launching a 60-foot-tall prototype called Starhopper, SpaceX has constructed a roughly 164-foot version called Starship Mk 1. Final Starships may stand about 40 stories tall and ferry 100 people to Mars at a time. Elon Musk, the…

SpaceX is preparing for a historic launch on Wednesday. SpaceX Wednesday's Falcon 9 rocket launch will be the first time a private company is transporting humans into orbit, and SpaceX boss Elon Musk admitted to CBS This Morning that the fact of his company sending NASA astronauts to the International Space Station still "feels surreal"…

SpaceX's Crew Dragon is shown here minutes before docking with the International Space Station. NASA; Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET SpaceX's Crew Dragon successfully reached the International Space Station at 7:16 a.m. PT Sunday, delivering NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the first US spaceflight to make the journey in nine years. They boarded…

SpaceX assembled the shiny pieces of its planned Starship orbital prototype in late 2019. This wasn't a launch-ready version, but it shows what the spacecraft will likely look like when it's finally ready for testing. SpaceX The development process of Starship, the next-generation space vehicle Elon Musk and SpaceX hope will one day carry humans…