Update: Despite successfully reaching second engine cut-off and thus past many of the most difficult parts of launch, the Start Me Up mission has suffered "an anomaly that has prevented us from ...

Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — finally launched its first space tourists to the edge of the cosmos, a major step toward delivering on ...

Virgin Galactic launched its first private astronaut mission on Thursday morning. The second commercial spaceflight mission, known as Galactic 02, launched from New Mexico's Spaceport America and into ...

A premature shutdown in the rocket during the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the UK was behind the mission failure, Virgin Orbit has said. After taking off from Spaceport Cornwall, ...

Virgin Galactic unveiled the identities of the three individuals that the Richard Brason-founded space company will carry on its suborbital Galactic 02 mission next month. The announcement, made ...

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a failed mission this year and increasing difficulty in raising funding for future missions. The company laid off ...