with reversed magnetic field directions below and above the galactic plane. However, to determine the size of these toroids ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new ... [+] dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such ...

Researchers have identified several magnetized structures extending far above and below the galactic plane (reaching heights of more than 16,000 light-years or 150 quadrillion kilometers ...

Europe currently has no capacity to launch crew from the continent, though Virgin Galactic missions carry the caveat that ...

Our view of the universe isn't as perfect as we'd like. The sun is located within the galactic plane of the Milky Way, about 30,000 light-years from its center. If we look to the north or south of ...

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.

Virgin Galactic is launching its first tourist ... Near the peak of the flight, more than 50 miles above the ground, the plane will glide. With the curvature of the Earth stretching below and ...

Virgin Galactic has launched ... curvature of the Earth below them and the blackness of space above, the pilots shut off the plane's engines and everybody onboard felt weightless.

Bandla, who developed an early interest in space, works as the vice president of government affairs for Virgin Galactic ... plane, known as Unity reached a height of 85km (282,000ft; 53 miles ...