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 ...

This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space tourism vehicle has been retired after its seventh flight on Saturday, and it will be at least two years before replacement craft are ready. “The learnings we have ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA — Kellie Gerardi, a payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, exited the VSS Unity on Thursday morning after a ...

More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of civilian passengers to the edge of space from the New Mexico desert. In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS ...

After assembling model rockets as a kid in rural Pennsylvania and dreaming of becoming an astronomer, Mike Moses embarked on a distinguished 17-year NASA career centered on human spaceflight — where ...

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.

Media covering Virgin Galactic flights often say the VSS Unity spaceship flew to “the edge of space,” but that may be a spaceflight misnomer. The confusion likely reflects the internationally accepted ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...