An curved arrow pointing right. Founder and CEO Richard Branson unveiled the second generation Virgin Galactic space plane. It will fly lucky passengers up to space for 4 minutes of zero-gravity fun.

Part of the problem is Earth's gravity. You need to escape it in order to reach space. This requires a minimum speed of mach 33 (25,000 mph). The current world record for fastest plane is only ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The unmanned Boeing-made aircraft landed ...

He explains that gravity is the force that keeps spacecraft and moons in orbit around planets and planets around stars. Astronauts in the International Space Station experience weightlessness ...