Virgin Galactic is offering suborbital flights to ... The rest of the world recognizes the Kármán line, as its known, as the border with space, which sits at 62 miles (100 kilometers) high.

Virgin Galactic launched its fourth suborbital space flight in as many months Friday, sending two company pilots, an astronaut trainer and three space tourists to the edge of space and back.

Virgin Galactic is grounded after the company said a small part unintentionally detached from the mothership of its rocket-powered space plane on its latest space tourism flight. The loss of the ...

The sun has started to creep over the craggy San Andreas Mountains, illuminating the massive, alien spaceship-like building here in New Mexico that Virgin Galactic calls home. I have traveled all ...

For years, British billionaire Richard Branson vowed that commercial spaceflights with his firm Virgin Galactic were just around the corner. On Thursday, that hype finally became reality when ...

Although the flight was characterized by its chief executive Michael Colglazier as a "celebratory moment" for Virgin Galactic, the company now finds itself at a crossroads. After an impressive but ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico, June 29 (Reuters) - A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert on Thursday aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane ...