Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the ...

Artist rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force’s X-37B ...

A secret space plane from the U.S. Space Force is set to fly on its eighth mission − one aimed at demonstrating critical space technology for deep space exploration. Just under six months post-landing ...

There are probably aircraft and spaceplanes in this world we literally know nothing about, and those are by all intents and purposes the true secret ones. The X-37B is only partially so: everybody ...

The Space Force's X-37B space plane, launched in December 2023, remains in orbit conducting experiments and maneuvers. The X-37B, designed to operate between 150-500 miles above Earth, recently ...

SpaceX has secured a contract to launch the uncrewed X-37B spaceplane, a secret military spacecraft created by the U.S. Air Force that's kind of like a compact space shuttle, but whose functional ...

After spending more than a year orbiting our planet on a hush-hush mystery mission, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is due to return to Earth any day now. Air Force officials haven't announced ...

The U.S. government's secretive X-37B space plane has returned to Earth after a 434-day mission in orbit, according to a ...

This story was updated at 11:14 a.m. EST. The U.S. Air Force is poised to launch its second robotic X-37B space plane on a secret mission today (March 4), with some experts speculating that the ...

For the first time, we’re seeing an image from the record-breaking US military space plane while in Earth orbit. Over the weekend, the US Space Force shared a photo taken by the spacecraft X-37B ...

The years-long secrecy of the X-37B program has fueled speculation about the program’s true purpose. For the first time ever, the ultra-secretive Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has posted a ...