The billionaire is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to the planet, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX.

Despite SpaceX already being NASA's largest private contractor, Elon Musk is still hellbent on assuming control over the space agency. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the mercurial CEO is doing much in his power to push NASA to skip its planned journeys to the Moon and focus on Mars instead,

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

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Taking the stage in Green Bay wearing a yellow foam cheesehead hat, Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters.

Speaking at a rally Sunday night, Musk said "we just want judges to be judges", before handing out two $1m (£750,000) cheques to voters who had signed a petition to stop "activis

A Wisconsin judge on Saturday declined to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters in the state at a planned rally days before the closely contested Supreme Court election.

Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked the state Supreme Court on Sunday to block presidential adviser Elon Musk from awarding $1 million prizes to voters for casting ballots in a high-stakes race for control of the court.

The astronauts speak out after returning from an unexpected nine-month mission that was extended following vehicle issues en route to the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams talk about their flight test on Boeing's Starliner capsule during a media event at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Propulsion system issues on the Starliner forced NASA to bring the capsule back without its crew last year and fold the two astronauts into the rotation schedule on the ISS. What

Williams and astronaut Butch Wilmore recently returned to Earth after a much- longer-than-planned trip to space. The two were stuck on the International Space Station ( ISS) for nearly 300 days, despite the original plan calling for it be a short trip.

NASA astronauts stranded in the International Space Station for 278 days said they want to share their input with Boeing. (AP Video by Lekan Oyekanmi)

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth earlier this month after unexpectedly spending nine months on the International Space Station