The race to Mars has intensified, with two major players leading the charge—NASA and SpaceX. NASA, a government-backed agency ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.

SpaceX has aborted the latest launch of Starship in what was set to be a crucial test of the Mars-bound rocket. The lift off of the 123-metre-tall rocket, which is the biggest rocket ever built ...

It is essential to Musk’s vision of reaching Mars and to NASA’s plan for returning to the moon under the Artemis program. In keeping with Musk’s futuristic vision, SpaceX says Starship could ...

There is also hope that it will be used for the first crewed mission to Mars. SpaceX boss Elon Musk wants that to happen before the end of this decade, but some time in the 2030s seems more likely.

SpaceX has spent years building and testing Starships in hopes it will become the first fully reusable launch system to carry humans and cargo to the moon and possibly Mars. As outlined in NASA's ...

TEXAS – SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded ... in the second straight failure in 2025 for Mr Elon Musk’s Mars rocket programme. Several videos on social media showed fiery debris ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk is aiming for Mars with Starship, the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. Like last time, Starship had mock satellites to release once the craft reached space on this ...

SpaceX has also repeatedly stated hopes of launching an uncrewed Starship to Mars by late 2026, when the planet will be close to Earth. This has been stated to be a goal not only of CEO Elon Musk ...