The timing could have been better. Yesterday, July 11, British entrepreneur and billionaire Richard Branson shot to the edge of space […]
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Virgin Galactic has successfully taken its first passengers to space, including its billionaire founder Richard Branson. The event, at Spaceport […]
Virgin Galactic is set to launch its first passengers to space tomorrow morning, and you can watch the whole thing […]
In 2009, using NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, also known as IBEX, astronomers spied a strange ribbon-like structure dancing between our […]
Two billionaires are neck and neck in the final sprint to the Kármán line, but Richard Branson may clinch it […]
Not all astronauts start off as test pilots. I spoke with David Saint-Jacques, a Canadian astronaut with a medical degree […]
It has long been thought that intense pressures and temperatures on Venus made life at the surface practically impossible. So […]
For billions of years, Earth has been playing a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. New research published today in Nature posits […]
Mundane tasks suddenly become extremely complex in space. I spoke with former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who flew two missions […]
Venus might be hell, but don’t call it a dead planet. Amid surface temperatures of up to 471 °C and […]