Richard Branson began his spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, 14 years ago. In all that time, the company has experienced several highs, and some crushing lows, but it has never actually gone into space. Until now. On Thursday morning, Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo, and its two pilots managed to top…

For the last decade or so, solar energy’s future was so bright, you needed sunglasses to look directly at it. Thanks in large part to the Solar Investment Tax Credit enacted in 2006, the solar sector has seen an average annual growth of 68 percent over the last decade. In…