Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. McALLEN — The Texas Senate has agreed ...

Eleven years after Musk promised an $85 million investment, SpaceX has surpassed that goal by about 16,000%. The company has ...

Starbase was incorporated in May 2025 and is the base of a rocket program that aims to reach Mars. SpaceX employees run the city, which has itself sparked controversy among some locals. Elon Musk hasn ...

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. STARBASE — The new South Texas city ...

In the driving wind off the Gulf of Mexico, under the looming 480-foot-tall steel launch towers called “Mechazilla,” a group of local kids take turns whacking an Elon Musk-shaped piñata. A crowd ...

McALLEN, Texas -- The south Texas home of Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as ...

McALLEN, Texas — The South Texas home of Elon Musk‘s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved ...

The new city of Starbase is moving fast to cut off public access to most of the SpaceX company town in South Texas. Citing safety and security issues, city officials approved four gates to limit ...

SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned aerospace company, is planning to go public next year with a potential $1.5 trillion IPO, which ...

Cameron County commissioners on Tuesday approved an agreement that will turn over control over some parts of Boca Chica Beach to Starbase, the new city near SpaceX's launch site. (Brenda Bazán For The ...