The Red Planet and Earth align properly for interplanetary missions just once every 26 months. The next such opportunity comes in 2026 between the months of November and December, and SpaceX will try to hit it; the goal is to send five Starship Version 3 vehicles to the Red Planet to prove out the vehicle and its associated tech, Musk said.

Those concerns only intensified amid a string of attacks on Tesla vehicles — including a man who blew up a Cybertruck outside a Trump property in Las Vegas — which the Justice Department is investiga...

Musk's departure from the administration "is music to the ears of Tesla shareholders," said Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, a long-time Tesla bull who had last month called the Tesla chief's tim...