President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters.

2024 has been a significant year for space exploration, featuring Boeing’s Starliner, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman’s, SpaceX Starship, NASA announcing going to the Moon, and possibly ending with two final flights of the year.

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false claims in the process.

SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbasesite a new Texas city.

SpaceX has launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching it with giant mechanical arms.

Tesla’s third-quarter net income rose 17.3% on stronger electric vehicle sales.

SpaceX has pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket.

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket has completed its first full test flight, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas.

SpaceX's mega rocket has flown higher and farther than ever before.

The company will attempt the third launch of its super-heavy rocket at 9:10 a.m. ET from Boca Chica, Texas. News 6 will stream the attempt live when it happens.

SpaceX is set to acquire public land from Texas after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a land-swapping deal that would cede 43 acres to entrepreneur Elon Musk's company in exchange for 477 acres that are yet to be bought.

Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it.

SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into a second test flight.

SpaceX is aiming for another test flight of its mega rocket on Friday after getting the final OK from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Federal Aviation Administration says SpaceX must take a series of steps before it can launch its mega rocket again.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon next year have gotten their first look at their spacecraft.

SpaceX has called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship.

SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight.

SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad.

SpaceX has cleared a key hurdle for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas.

The billionaire who flew on his own SpaceX flight last year is headed back up, aiming for an even higher orbit and the chance to take part in a spacewalk.

SpaceX's Elon Musk says the first orbital flight of his towering Starship could come in another month or two.

SpaceX is aiming to launch its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship to orbit in January.

Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander.

SpaceX has finally launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship.

NASA has chosen SpaceX to build the lunar lander that will eventually put the first woman and person of color on the moon.

In this image from video made available by SpaceX, one of the company's Starship prototypes fires its thrusters as it lands during a test in Boca Chica, Texas, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Two previous test flights crash-landed in fireballs. The shiny bullet-shaped rocketship remained intact this time at touchdown, prompting SpaceX commentator John Insprucker to declare, “third time’s a charm as the saying goes” before SpaceX ended its webcast of the test. One day, the true measure of success will be that Starship flights are commonplace.”Musk plans to use Starships to send people to the moon and Mars. Each of these last three test flights lasted 6 1/2 minutes.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX’s futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas on Tuesday. SpaceX came close to launching a prototype of the rocketship that company chief Elon Musk is designing to carry people to Mars. SpaceX already has conducted five Starship test flights, but these earlier, simpler models have gone no higher than 490 feet (150 meters.) SpaceX has taken over Boca Chica in the far southeastern corner of Texas, near the Mexican border, to build and test its Starships. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.

It was slated to fly its highest "hop" test yet, to about 65 feet off the ground, and SpaceX set up a webcast for the event. When contacted by CNN Business Thursday, SpaceX spokesperson James Gleeson said he could not immediately provide additional details about the test. Starhopper is designed to be an early precursor to a deep-space exploration rocket called Starship. The tests are "designed to test the boundaries of the vehicle," said Kate Tice, a SpaceX engineer, on a livestream of the test Wednesday. Wednesday's test was set to be the first untethered flight attempt.