SpaceX owner Elon Musk said he is pushing to make the human race multiplanetary to provide it insurance, specifically to save it from being “incinerated” by the sun.

Musk said he wants to travel to Mars to “better understand the nature of the universe” and provide the human race with “life insurance.” Musk has pushed for years to expand humanity’s presence to Mars. In an interview on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime, Musk said the sun poses an extinction-level threat to humanity.

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“So eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun,” Musk explained. “The sun is gradually expanding, and so we do, at some point, need to be a multiplanet civilization because Earth will be incinerated.”

Watters responded that this was the first time he had heard that the sun would eventually scorch the Earth, prompting Musk to add that he does not think anyone would disagree with his assessment.

Despite his warning, Musk said the human race has another “several hundred million years” left before this eventual apocalypse. However, he warned that people should not sit around thinking they will be OK until then. Musk estimated that Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years and has “about 10% more life in it” before rising temperatures make it impossible to sustain life on the planet.

When pressed on his plan for Mars, Musk said they would go beyond “flags and footprints.” He said they include creating a “self-sustaining city” on the planet. However, he warned that if Mars’s supply from Earth eventually ceased, the human civilization on Mars would not have the “life insurance” he is working toward.

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Musk’s interest in colonizing Mars dates back to the early 2000s. In his biography, released in 2023, he revealed that he grew interested in this possibility after discovering that NASA had no plans to travel to Mars. This prompted him to go to a library and read up on rocket engineering as well as ask rocket experts if he could borrow their old engine manuals.

His plan to travel to Mars comes as he has been working with the Trump administration on cutting government waste. Musk’s biography also details a private meeting with President Donald Trump in December 2016. In the meeting, Trump said he “really wanted to get NASA going again.” Over the weekend, Musk said he and Trump “almost always agree.”