Galactic 01 from Virgin Galactic — the brainchild of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson — is the company's first trip with paying customers Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

Shares of Virgin Galactic climbed as a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the company's next spaceflight test is on track to launch as early as Saturday. An FAA notice ...

This was CNBC's live blog covering Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, Galactic 01. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded by Sir Richard Branson in 2004, completed its ...

Virgin Galactic announced Friday that Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya is stepping down from the space-tourism company's board of directors, effective immediately. The now-former chairman sold his ...

The chief executive of Richard Branson’s commercial space travel venture Virgin Galactic dismissed comparisons between his company and OceanGate Expeditions, the firm behind the doomed Titan ...

Virgin Galactic is building a space tourism business. It has proven the concept and is actually running space tourism flights, but it is nowhere near profitable. Management is still saying that the ...

Virgin Galactic took a step closer to completing development of its space tourism system on Saturday, successfully flying its first spaceflight in more than two years. The company's spacecraft, named ...

Virgin Galactic rose on new collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Lab to collect data aboard launch vehicles for advanced imaging.

It takes a lot of money to build a spaceship; just ask Virgin Galactic. And now it has to do it again. In the third quarter of 2023, Virgin Galactic's space travel business was basically up and ...

Virgin Galactic has proven that it can operate a space tourism business. The company has yet to prove that it can fly to space profitably, however. Virgin Galactic could be a millionaire maker, but ...

Galactic 01 from Virgin Galactic — the brainchild of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson — is the company's first trip with paying customers A group of Italian researchers reached the edge of ...

Virgin Galactic is attempting to build a profitable space tourism business. The company reached an important milestone in 2023, proving that it could reliably get to space. The next big step forward ...