The company begins construction of a $250 million, 30-story rocket facility as it ramps up to 25 Starship launches a year ...

While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big ...

Andrea Guzman covers Texas brands at Chron, which includes everything from H-E-B and Blue Bell to local businesses in Houston. Her work has appeared in the Texas Observer, Mother Jones, and Fortune.

A first public test of robotaxis in Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from riders showed over ...

Lawmakers at the Capitol tacked on a last-minute provision to a bill that now gives the newly formed city of Starbase ...

Starbase, Elon Musk's ambitious SpaceX city in South Texas, was officially incorporated in May 2025. It's expanding with housing, shops, and its mayor, Bobby Peden, a SpaceX VP.

It’s become a passion project for Musk, who keeps a house nearby, and often posts glowingly about the new city. “Starbase is so cool,” he tweeted last August.

Starbase, the Cameron County development two miles down the road that houses the test facility for SpaceX rockets and is home to some 500 people, officially voted to become Texas’s newest city.

How Elon Musk incorporated his SpaceX launch site in Texas SpaceX conducts many of its own rocket launches, most using the Falcon 9 rocket, from both California and Florida.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, founded SpaceX, in 2002. In July 2024, Musk announced his intentions to move his company, as well as social media platform X's headquarters, from California to ...

President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024.

The new Texas city of Starbase, home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, sent a notice to residents last week stating that they may lose the right to continue using their property “for its current use ...