Thursday's flight, dubbed Galactic 02, was actually the first time the company flew a private astronaut into space—and this is the reason Virgin Galactic exists, after all.

The Yale Center for British Art has always been one of the most accessible and comfortable museums to visit in downtown New Haven on street level among boutiques, eateries, coffee shops and ...

Namira Slim became the first person from Pakistan to reach space today (Oct. 6), a milestone she achieved on Virgin Galactic's 'Galactic 04' mission.

Virgin Galactic is taking its first space tourists on a long-delayed rocket ship ride, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago.

Richard Branson's Virgin Glactic rocketed a handful of tourists, including a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean, to the edge of space on Thursday.

Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won’t be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic ‘s spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral structure. But while it is impossible to get a full view of the Milky Way ...

What to know about Virgin Galactic's 1st mission taking paying customers to space An Olympian and a mother-daughter pair are on the Galactic 02 mission.

Virgin Galactic notched its third commercial spaceflight, launching three paying customers on a roughly 90-minute flight that briefly touched the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — has returned its supersonic plane to the edge of space for the first time since 2021, when Branson ...

Virgin Galactic has taken its first tourists to the edge of space, with an 80-year-old British ex-Olympian saying the trip "exceeded my wildest dreams". On board the VSS Unity were Jon Goodwin ...