The X-37B is a reusable, unmanned U.S. spaceplane used as an orbital testbed since 2010. -Its long, classified missions and agile maneuvering fuel Chinese claims it could inspect or disable satellites ...

B, has safely returned to Earth after an awe-inspiring 434 days in orbit. This record-breaking mission has led to a whirl of ...

Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the "ooh, ahh" factor of a launch virtually morning, noon or night − with ...

Space X's Falcon Heavy rocket returned to the skies Thursday night, launching a mysterious spacecraft for the U.S. military. The rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's ...

"We want to look at the effects of long-term exposure to space — as if the Zylon material is going for a potential six- to nine-month mission to Mars." ...

On August 21, 2025, a small but powerful space plane will once again head into orbit, carrying with it experiments that could redefine how humans travel through space. The X-37B, a reusable orbital ...

Launch recap: Live updates from USSF-36 mission, which launched at 11:50 p.m. Aug. 21 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Original story: The mysterious Space Force space plane is scheduled to ...

How the money for this classified project will be spent is unknown. U.S. President Trump's "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act," H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B military ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...

The U.S. and China recently launched secretive space missions using high-tech spaceplanes. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday looks at what the U.S.’s Boeing-made X-37B spacecraft is capable of doing, and how ...