space travel

The mission, departing on Wednesday night, is spearheaded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman.

The Federal Aviation Administration has granted the company the license needed to fly commercial passengers to space, Virgin Galactic announced Friday.

The price to rocket into space next month with Jeff Bezos and his brother is a cool $28 million.

The crew of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule docked the ship with the international space station Saturday morning.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space 60 years ago

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has postponed its first space launch due to a technical problem. The flight was supposed to have happened Sunday but a sensor began acting up.

SpaceX’s wild ride to the first commercial space taxi launch started with a dream of Mars and lots of failures. In late May, the California company will try to send two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

A new documentary looks at the final frontier of civil rights: getting black astronauts into space amid segregation, discrimination and the Cold War

Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly.

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong made his famous moon walk, baseball fans visiting San Francisco’s Oracle Park are encountering an exact replica of his space suit, crafted by a San Rafael company.

The possibility of traveling to the moon had long invigorated the dreams of storytellers. But the realization of that vision, and the images it produced, opened up entirely new horizons.

From his eyes to his immune system, astronaut Scott Kelly’s body sometimes reacted strangely to nearly a year in orbit, at least compared to his Earth-bound identical twin — but newly published research shows nothing that would cancel even longer space treks, like to Mars. The good news: Kelly largely bounced back after returning home, say scientists who released final...

Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane reached space for a second time in a test flight over California on Friday, climbing higher and faster than before while also carrying a crewmember to evaluate the long-awaited passenger experience. The winged spaceship soared at three times the speed of sound to an altitude of 55.8 miles (89.8 kilometers) before gliding to a safe landing...

New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center in Jersey City is aiming to take visitors into space in what they are billing as the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere.

The public intrigue is real. And this Brooklyn dad relishes the mystique.

It was a press conference with a little bit of everything – space travel, science, technology, and the offer of a kiss.

There was a time when MJ Maggraff didn’t consider having two feet firmly on the ground was such a good thing. She was 45, a happily married mother of two — dashing off to PTA meetings and getting the kids to school. Yet something was missing.

Authorities identified the deceased pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that crashed Friday.