Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an “existing vacancy” on SpaceX’s board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO
SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO

SpaceX has made it official. In a filing on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s newly public rocket company said it had signed a binding agreement to buy Anysphere, the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock deal that values the company at …

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX’s struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7 billion raised

SpaceX’s IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.

A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means

In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.

Lightsails have hit another speed bump on the road to interstellar travel

A new study suggests laser-driven interstellar lightsails may face a hidden efficiency problem as the very light pushing them starts behaving less helpfully.

The galaxy has an exoplanet size mystery, and NASA’s EVE mission wants to solve it

NASA’s proposed EVE mission would study young exoplanets to help explain why the galaxy has so few worlds sitting between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.

We just got a hot signal that a Tesla and SpaceX could happen, after all

A fresh comment from SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has reignited speculation about a future Tesla-SpaceX tie-up. It may not be happening soon, but the idea suddenly feels a lot less far-fetched.