Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial research mission took off out of New Mexico on Saturday, its last before the company retires its VSS Unity spaceplane. The commercial spacecraft embarked on ...

Rocket boosters are better for orbital spaceflights as compared to planes, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday, hours after Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE:SPCE) took tourists to ...

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity flew its final flight (or so it said) in 2024, with commercial operations on hiatus until the ...

Virgin Galactic still expects to resume taking civilians to space by the end of 2026 as it looks to begin ground testing for ...

The battle of the billionaires hoping to claim their stake in outer space wages onward. This past weekend, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight company successfully reached outer space for ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Virgin Galactic successfully completed its first fully crewed spaceflight over the weekend. The company says its flight on Sunday was its first test flight with a full crew onboard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the span of five years, 92 different people boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket for brief flights to the edge ...

Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a flight more than 15 years in the making. The billionaire has narrowly become the first person to fly ...