Elon Musk has switched up his out-of-this-world focus, putting aside his Mars project to set up shop on the Moon. Musk’s SpaceX has long claimed that it will ‘colonise Mars’, though critics have often ...

The mission showed that astronauts can once again travel beyond low Earth orbit.

The vision of Mars colonization is moving from science fiction into real-world planning, with multiple space agencies preparing for long-term human presence. Modern Mars missions focus on testing ...

A crane, marked by the SpaceX logo, sits near the Starbase launch site in Cameron County, Texas, on February 6, 2026. Reporter SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus ...