Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

Donald Trump’s nominee to lead NASA, Jared Isaacman, will score a big refund from Elon Musk’s SpaceX if he’s confirmed.

The second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship, proved an old adage: ...

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to," former NASA astronaut José Hernández ...

If Mars becomes a human colony is anyone’s guess. Musk said 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining civilization on the planet. While Mars is quite barren, dusty, and chilly, ...

The billionaire says an unmanned mission by his SpaceX "Starship" vehicle will be followed by human landings as early as 2029 ...

Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...

In the first few months of 2025, there's been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket will make its maiden Mars flight by the end of 2026, with human ...

SpaceX chief Elon Musk says the Starship rocket will put Tesla’s Optimus robot on Mars in 2026, followed by human landings ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla ...