SpaceX will launch 50 satellites and land the returning booster today (Feb. 25), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 12:12 p.m. EST (1712 GMT; 9:12 a.m. local California time). You can watch live here at Space.com courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage will start about 15 minutes before liftoff.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawyer has accused the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or leaking information about a federal probe to retaliate against him, CNBC has reported. "It has become clearer and clearer that the Commission is out to retaliate against my clients for exercising their First Amendment rights—most recently by criticizing the Commission on the public docket and by petitioning this Court for relief," said Musk attorney Alex Spiro.

Elon Musk is planning yet again to rocket beyond the status quo. And if he succeeds, the aerospace giants that won the first space race may never catch him in this one. Standing in front of the towering Starship rocket at Space X’s southwest Texas “Starbase” on Thursday night, Musk pledged that his most ambitious spaceship yet will make its first journey in the coming months.

SpaceX has lost 40 out of 49 recently deployed satellites, following solar winds creating a geomagnetic storm in space.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new subpoena to Tesla in November 2021, a financial filing from the company revealed on Monday. The financial regulator is trying to determine whether Elon Musk and his electric car maker complied with a revised settlement agreement that the agency struck with them in 2019. According to Tesla’s filing, the SEC is seeking information on the company’s “governance processes around compliance with the SEC settlement, as amended.”

"I've done a lot of work on this and $5k is not enough," the teen behind the Elon Musk's Jet Twitter account told Insider.

Tesla said in 2021 that it's developing a humanoid robot — codenamed "Optimus" — that can take over dangerous and repetitive tasks from humans.

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is now hiring a clinical trial director, an indication that the company’s longstanding goal of implanting chips in human brains is coming closer.

Elon Musk is offering Starlink terminals to Tonga residents after a recent underwater volcanic eruption led to a loss of internet access in the country. The eruption occurred on January 15 with a powerful blast yield of around 10 megatons. It subsequently triggered a tsunami that tore through the country's 827 km (514 miles) undersea internet cable, cutting off the island's communication links.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tesla CEO and world's richest man Elon Musk prefers to make things "personal," rather than engage with criticisms of how much tax he pays. Warren made the comments during an appearance on The New York Times Sway podcast. Host Kara Swisher asked her about a December Twitter exchange in which Warren said Musk should "actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else."

Elon Musk has said that social media accounts tracking his travel movements are "becoming a security issue." The Tesla CEO on Monday responded to a Twitter post discussing the risk posed to Musk and his family in publicly posting details about his travel plans. "Yeah, unfortunately this is becoming a security issue," Musk said, without providing further detail.

China and the United States have been urged to improve communications with each other and with private companies over space matters to reduce the risk of accidents. The call follows China’s complaint to the United Nations that its Tiangong space station had two near misses with satellites from Elon Musk’s company SpaceX last year.

Elon Musk says that he is considering Tesla Bot becoming more than just a humanoid robot to perform useful tasks but to have it potentially develop a unique personality and be a companion. He says Tesla Bot could make an “incredible buddy like C3PO or R2D2.”

Elon Musk faces a hefty tax bill this year — possibly the biggest in U.S. history. “For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year,” the Tesla CEO tweeted on Monday. That’s close to a CNBC estimate that Musk was set to pay a total of $12 billion in taxes in 2021.

A SpaceX executive says that the company’s next-generation, fully-reusable Starship rocket has already secured multiple commercial launch contracts.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said there are "not enough people," which could threaten human civilization. "I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birthrate," said the father of six at the Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council.

Elon Musk recently suggested that anyone over 70 years old should be barred from running for political office. In a tweet on Thursday, the SpaceX and Tesla founder said: "Let's set an age limit after which you can't run for political office, perhaps a number just below 70."

SpaceX employees received a nightmare email over the holiday weekend from CEO Elon Musk, warning them of a brewing crisis with its Raptor engine production that, if unsolved, could result in the company’s bankruptcy. The email, obtained by SpaceExplored, CNBC, and The Verge, urged employees to work over the weekend in a desperate attempt to increase production of the engine meant to power its next-generation Starship launch vehicle.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is known for his spontaneous mass communication, from rants on Twitter to “everybody” e-mails he sends to all employees at his electric vehicle company.

The CEO of Tesla Elon Musk has shaken the finance world once more, and the consequences could impact Bitcoin. Via his Twitter account, Musk asked his followers if he should sell 10% or around $25 billion of his company’s stocks as a result of potentially new tax requirements on unrealized gains to be implemented in the U.S.