The sky over the Spaceport America in southern New Mexico was afire with lightning last night. The storm was sufficiently fierce to postpone Virgin Galactic’s planned rollout of its twin airships, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP via Getty Images) Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are offering trip to the edge of space to promote their newest venture.

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson almost, but not quite, flew into space today as a passenger aboard the privately built and operated Virgin Galactic spaceplane, VSS Unity, which took off from ...

Virgin Galactic paused commercial spaceflights in June 2024 to work on a new spaceplane to take paying customers on ...