Virgin Galactic will become the first rocket company to launch the boss when Richard Branson straps into one of his sleek, shiny space planes this weekend. The self-described tie-loathing adventurer ...

Richard Branson already saw the blackness of space traveling at nearly Mach 3 with his company Virgin Galactic. Now he’s going to take a slower approach. The billionaire is investing in Space ...

British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is investing in Titusville-based Space Perspective, and he will co-pilot a pressurized capsule and enormous hydrogen balloon on the ...

"Today was a tough day." Yet a week that witnessed both the first fatal crash of a privately operated space craft and the spectacular failure of another privately operated, unmanned rocket, has raised ...

On Sunday, Richard Branson became the first billionaire in space. In the video promoting the trip, joy is evident on his face as he unbuckles his safety harness and floats free from gravity. Back on ...

A true adventurer must keep adventuring, and no one seems to know that better than business magnate Sir Richard Branson. The 74-year-old adventurer has just been confirmed as one of the pilots that ...

Days after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced he was going to rocket into space, there is speculation that Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will be trying to beat him to the final frontier.

Richard Branson could shoot into space on his Virgin Galactic aircraft as its first passenger early next year, the company said, potentially blazing a path for commercial flights. Sir Richard Branson ...

Here’s an idea—why don’t we round up every trance act and send them all into space? So we never have to hear that incessant doof doof noise any more. Let’s hope Richard Branson agrees. Trance “act” ...

This combination of file photos shows Jeff Bezos with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, left, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket ...

Branson also has a love of long-distance ballooning, so the Space Perspective trip should fit in his bucket list. He set a Guinness record in 1987 by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, and then ...