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A stunning new image from the South African MeerKAT telescope captures powerful radio emissions woven through space.

The solar system is bathing in a sea of charged particles that emanate from the sun, and one research team spent 14 years chasing solar eclipses to learn more about this stellar spray.

Virgin Galactic will partner with a charity fundraising platform to offer the out-of-this-world opportunity.

Virgin Galactic's newly minted astronauts are beyond thrilled following their journey to space on the company's first fully crewed spaceflight.

The continuing research with exoplanets involves trying to identify their atmospheric composition, specifically to answer the question of whether life could exist there.

There are more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. Could one of them be our new home?

Early this morning (July 11), billionaire Richard Branson and three other passengers briefly went to space for the first fully crewed spaceflight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spaceplane.

Virgin Galactic's billionaire founder Richard Branson decided to bike to the launch pad at Spaceport America ahead of his long-awaited trip to space.

Three tubes of plants will be among the experiments flying to space on Virgin Galactic's Unity space plane with the company's founder Richard Branson and his crew today (July 11).

SpaceX's Elon Musk is among the high-profile people celebrating Branson's preparations for space.

Virgin Galactic has slightly delayed the launch of its Unity 22 mission with billionaire founder Richard Branson due to bad weather.

Satellite data finds that June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in North America.

Here's everything you need to know about Virgin Galactic's launch of Richard Branson and his crew on SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Sunday, July 11.

As the billionaire space race heats up between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, it's easy to get the wrong message.

Here's the crew of Virgin Galactic Unity 22 suborbital spaceflight on Sunday (July 11) and what they think about their big launch.

Virgin Galactic will use Fisher space pens when it launches six astronauts to suborbital space on July 11, 2021.

Richard Branson's path to space has been quite a bit longer and more circuitous than he anticipated.

Richard Branson's spaceflight is shaping up to be quite a star-studded affair.

Satellite data finds that June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in North America.

For the tiny few of us who can afford to pay for a trip in space, Blue Origin is already ramping up its marketing against competitor Virgin Galactic.