The flight was crewed by Virgin Galactic chief pilot Dave McKay alongside lead trainer pilot Mike Masucci, with Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor, monitoring conditions in the passenger cabin.

In the quest to provide commercial suborbital spaceflight services to paying passengers, Blue Origin’s New Shepard has one clear advantage over Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, notes Blue founder Jeff Bezos: It flies higher, rendering moot a debate about the boundary of space.

In early February, a delegation of Roscosmos State Corp. visited Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East, the site of a new launch pad for the future super-heavy rocket that will be used for planned flights to the Moon.

Long-running efforts to re-establish communications with NASA’s intrepid Opportunity rover on Mars have come to a close.

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is sounding an urgent note as the agency’s Commercial Crew Program prepares for test flights of SpaceX and Boeing vehicles.

The first test of the methane-burning Raptor rocket engine marks a key step toward the start of flight tests of SpaceX's multipurpose, interplanetary-class space transportation system.

Earth’s life-essential elements may have been delivered through the same impact with a Mars-sized planetary body that produced the Moon more than 4.4 billion years ago, a research effort says.

In a shocking move just three months after founder Paul Allen's death, Stratolaunch has abandoned development of a family of dedicated launchers and PGA rocket engines.