Richard Branson

18 Jan 2021

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit launched ten satellites into orbit on Sunday in a successful test of its key air-launched rocket.

09 Nov 2020

Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop created history on Sunday after successfully completing the world's first human passenger ride in a hyperloop pod at its DevLoop test facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

07 Mar 2020

Last year, American space agency NASA confirmed the plan to open the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial activities like tourism.

28 Jun 2019

Thanks to the Bitcoin boom, Indians have started recognizing the lucrative prospects of cryptocurrencies.

15 Jun 2019

Stratolaunch, the world's largest plane by wingspan, is up for sale for a whopping $400 million.

29 May 2019

MacKenzie Bezos (48), the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (55), has become the newest billionaire to sign The Giving Pledge - a philanthropy group of the world's wealthiest people.

08 May 2019

The trial of Keith Raniere, the leader of a suspected sex cult NXIVM (pronounced Nexium), began in New York on Tuesday.

01 Dec 2018

If all goes well for Virgin Galactic, the Richard Branson-owned company might end up sending people to space this year itself - by Christmas.

13 Oct 2018

Gear up, space tourists! Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is just weeks away from reaching space.

27 Aug 2018

In a first-of-its-kind experiment for India, SpiceJet flew India's first biofuel-powered flight from Dehradun today morning.

13 Jul 2018

Commercial space travel just moved one step closer to reality.

14 Jun 2018

Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the $1 billion fund launched by millionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani, and George Soros in 2016 to create new energy technologies and fight climate change, is finally making its first investment.

15 May 2018

If British billionaire Richard Branson had his way, Indians would soon be making a Mumbai-Pune journey in sci-fi mode: through a high-speed hyperloop.

14 Mar 2018

Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking died today at his Cambridge home. He was 76.

19 Feb 2018

Soon, the travel time between Mumbai and Pune will be cut down to just 20 minutes from the current three hours. This would be made possible by building a hyperloop transportation system.

18 Feb 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Global Investors' Summit at the 'Magnetic Maharashtra: Convergence 2018' conference at the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla complex.

29 Oct 2017

Former US President Barack Obama has reportedly been summoned for jury duty in Cook County, Illinois. According to a court official, Obama does plan on serving.

14 Mar 2017

Sources said that the upcoming books by Barack and Michelle Obama, would be launched globally. However, the book titles and dates have not been made public yet.

01 Mar 2017

Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have signed a two-book deal with Penguin Random House.

08 Feb 2017

We've all been wondering what former US President Barack Obama's been up to since Donald Trump took office.

11 Jan 2017

The 44th President of USA gave his farewell speech in Chicago and began by saying "it was good to be home".

20 Dec 2016

SoftBank's chief executive Masayoshi Son has invested $1.2 billion into the satellite broadband start-up OneWeb, according to reports.

27 Aug 2016

British tycoon Richard Branson suffered face injuries in a bike accident in the British Virgin Islands.