Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California May 1 for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Outer space glows with a bright fog of X-ray light, coming from everywhere at ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators say they have determined that a space tourism rocket broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert after a device to slow the experimental spaceship’s ...

An upcoming galactic collision is likely to wake the black hole at the center of the Milky Way and turn our home galaxy into a quasar — it could even fling our solar system into intergalactic space, ...

Virgin Galactic has successfully tested its newest spacecraft's "feather" re-entry system for the first time. That's what it calls the mechanism wherein the vehicle folds up its twin tail booms so ...

In January 2019, Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson and Under Armour CEO and Founder Kevin Plank announced a collaboration which saw Under Armour become Virgin Galactic’s Technical Spacewear ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), the Neutron Star Interior ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...