MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth’s atmosphere exploded during a test flight Friday over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot in the second fiery setback for ...

The race to put tourists into space seems to be a glacially slow one most of the time, and then BOOM -- it suddenly takes a supersonic leap forward. That's the case with Richard Branson's long-delayed ...

Today, SpaceShipTwo completed its first powered test since the horrific crash in 2014 that killed one of its pilots. The craft, VSS Unity, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port aboard a plane called ...

Women made history in space on Thursday. Four women were part of a crew of six for Galactic 02, the first Virgin Galactic private astronaut spaceflight. That's the most women on a single space flight.

Operators like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are helping to open the final frontier to routine, safe operations and will allow thousands of people to experience the wonders of spaceflight firsthand.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has crashed after what the company described as an "in-flight anomaly" during a powered test flight. According to the Associated Press, the California Highway Patrol has ...

Today one test pilot died when Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave desert. A second pilot was evacuated to a hospital. It's not clear why the crash occurred. SpaceShipTwo had been ...