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 ...

LV-X, the designation Virgin Galactic has for a new mothership aircraft, could be used for applications beyond ferrying the company's spaceplane. Credit: Virgin Galactic WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic ...

LE BOURGET—Virgin Galactic is on track to start final assembly of the first Delta Class spaceplane at its new Phoenix, Arizona, facility within the next two months and remains on schedule to begin ...

Virgin Galactic is nearing in on commercial spaceflight with the completion of its latest test of SpaceShipTwo. The reusable ship, which will eventually be used to ferry around passengers, took its ...

On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations. Virgin Galactic's carrier plane VMS ...

Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company that is part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate. Virgin Galactic's first of seven commercial spaceflights ...

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 ...