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Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic first flight with tourists went off without a hitch today as it launched from Spaceport America, around 45 miles north of Las Cruces in New Mexico, US

Parkinson's patient Jon Goodwin, at 80 years old, defied his illness to become Britain's oldest astronaut, realizing his dream of space travel with Virgin Galactic and inspiring others with his determination

Pauline Goodwin, the wife of intrepid astronaut Jon Goodwin, said she was 'very proud' moments before the launch of Virgin Galactic's first rocket ship ride in New Mexico

Virgin Galactic took off at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert along with six members of crew including an 80-year-old who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mum and daughter pair from the Caribbean

Tens of thousands are expected to tune in to watch the much anticipated take off of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic first flight with tourists. It will launch from from Spaceport America, around 45 miles north of Las Cruces in New Mexico, US

Anastatia Mayers, an eighteen-year-old Aberdeen University student, will be beside her mum Keisha Schahaff, 46, when the pair blast off from New Mexico on Thursday after scooping a sweepstakes prize for Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight

The heat spot is a suspected patch of radiation after scientists discovered a 31-mile mass of granite deep below the Moon's surface, suggesting it came from a once-active volcano

A new study has discovered strange radio signals being blasted out of a black hole for a fraction of a second, leaving scientists baffled

How astronauts train is always top of the list of any space fan's questions - so we sent one writer to try it out and find out exactly what happens at space camp

NASA says it has cegained contact with its pioneering Voyager 2 craft after a case of human error suddenly cut contact two weeks ago with the second-ever probe in space

The asteroid, known as 2023 NT1, passed our planet unseen after approaching from our known blind spot through the glare of the Sun, and was only spotted two days later

Scientists have been pondering for the last three decades over what - or who - could be sending the 21-minute waves, which they initially thought may have come from a dying star

A French woman was left injured after a 50g meteorite crashed into the roof of her home in Schirmeck, leaving experts baffled over the rare sighting, which hasn't been seen in the region "in decades"

Experts say the hunkering metal dome washed up on an Australian beach is unlike anything used on commercial airlines, but that it may have once been part of a space rocket launched by a foreign space agency

NASA has released stunning photos showing baby stars in a cloud complex 390 light-years away. All of the young stars appear to be no bigger than the sun

The Viking lander mission touched down on Mars in the mid-1970s and carried out a number of tests for alien life, including introducing water into soil samples, that could have actually killed the organisms

The Supernova Requiem explosion took place 10 billion years ago and was seen before in 2016 and a new study has found that it will be possible to be viewed again in a rerun

Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope this afternoon on a milion-mile dark matter and dark energy mission to explore the secrets of the 'dark universe' - follow live updates here

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency's Euclid from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, as it heads towards an area in space known as the second Lagrange point

The two-tonne European Euclid will take off today on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket operated by Elon Musk's firm at 4.11pm from Cape Canaveral in Florida and will take a month to reach its destination

The first-ever commercial spaceflight chartered by Virgin Atlantic will spend 90 minutes touring the atmosphere while the astronauts on board conduct experiments in suborbital conditions

Scientists have found the planet Halla, a gas giant similar to Jupiter, survived when its star known as Baekdu rapidly expanded into a red giant, which usually destroys all in its path

Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will line up in a magnificent cosmic event this weekend as they will all be visible practically to the naked eye on Saturday

South Korean astronomer Bum-Suk Yeom has published an image of a huge sunspot that can be seen from Earth with a naked eye - but anyone who wants to look has been warned to use eclipse glasses

Mahmut Sahin could barely believe it when the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock crashed into his yard in the town of Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein State, Germany