The X-37B on the runway at Vandenberg Space Force Base following its landing there on March 7, 2025. Image: U.S. Space Force. Update Aug. 20, 12:56 p.m. EDT: Added additional information from the 45th ...

The US military's secretive X-37B space plane has started to perform advanced aerobraking maneuvers to shift its orbit, marking an exciting milestone for orbital innovation. The plan was launched in ...

The X-37B is a reusable robotic space plane operated by the U.S. military, but much of what it does in orbit remains ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks away from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the USSF-36 mission with the X-37B spaceplane onboard. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the ...

The US military’s robotic mini-space shuttle dropped out of orbit and glided to a runway in California late Thursday, ending a 434-day mission that pioneered new ways of maneuvering in space. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, shared an image from orbit for the first time. The reusable orbital test ...

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military’s latest X-37B spaceplane mission was pretty much spot-on. When the semi-classified winged spacecraft launched on December 28, it ...

Summary and Key Points: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has recently made headlines due to malfunctions that will delay the return of two NASA astronauts until 2025. While the Starliner faces challenges ...