Opinion

Elon Musk’s Jilting Mars To Build Moon City Could Spark His Downfall

Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, is a cosmic mistake, says a top Mars scholar.

Elon Musk's new 'Marshot' pay package could be worth billions — if he helps colonize Mars

Elon Musk's SpaceX pay package has a sci-fi-inspired compensation structure that literally requires getting humanity to ...
Time

Elon Musk Postpones Mars Plans in Favor of Building “Moon City”

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 ...

Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars

Either SpaceX's board members are just as delulu, or they're confident this goal is unachievable so they won't have to dole out the pay package.

Elon Musk didn't start SpaceX to build rockets — the original Mars plan was surprisingly simple

Elon Musk's dream of interplanetary travel is one step closer to becoming reality, as his rocket company SpaceX filed its IPO ...
Ars Technica

Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible

Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision for Mars settlement for nearly eight years now, dating to a speech in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September 2016. This weekend, at ...
fox6now

Elon Musk sought $80B for Mars colonization, OpenAI president says in trial

Greg Brockman testified Elon Musk backed a for-profit OpenAI but wanted full control to fund an $80 billion Mars plan. The testimony comes in a trial where Musk is seeking $150 billion in ...