The world’s first commercial passenger spaceship, funded by Virgin boss Richard Branson, will be unveiled today.

Six young people were shot after they stepped off a bus that had left a high school, leaving at least one critical, in a horror attack just streets from two primary schools.

A huge explosion killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by a pioneering aerospace company linked to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism business.

Madonna thrilled thousands of fans at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, bringing a mainstream feel to the traditionally edgy event.

AN ungainly looking private spaceship blasted through the Earth’s atmosphere for a second time in a week today to capture a $10 million prize meant to encourage tourists to get out of this world.

Space tourism came a step closer today when a private commercial rocket flew into the near reaches of space for the first time.

A rocket plane soared out of Earth’s atmosphere over California’s Mojave desert today in the first privately-financed manned space flight.