British billionaire Sir Richard Branson almost, but not quite, flew into space today as a passenger aboard the privately built and operated Virgin Galactic spaceplane, VSS Unity, which took off from ...

One of the astronauts on Sunday's historic flight tries to summon the words to describe a few life-changing minutes. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP via Getty Images) Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are offering trip to the edge of space to promote their newest venture.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Sir Richard Branson recently took the VSS Unity to what was called "space", but now astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said its technically not "space" ...

The company's space plane launched with Branson onboard Sunday morning - just days before Jeff Bezos's launch. Virgin Galactic is livestreaming the spaceflight; the video feed is embedded below. See ...