The U.S. Department of Defense's mini-shuttle heads to orbit once again Thursday night. The hunt will be on shortly, to once again recover a clandestine mission in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is set to ...

-America’s X-37B space plane looks like a scaled-down shuttle, but it has become one of the most consequential military programs of the post-Cold War era. -Born as a NASA technology demonstrator and ...

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 ...

The US military’s reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force will take over two mothballed space shuttle processing hangars at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its secretive X-37B robotic spaceplane ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force hitched a ride on SpaceX to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to ...

The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday night. Credit: U.S. Space Force ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-8 (OTV-8) is scheduled to lift off no earlier than August 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: U.S. Space Force ...