NASA maintains its 2025 target for the X-59 Quesst quiet-supersonic demonstrator's maiden flight as the programme advances ...

A British air force E-7 Wedgetail aircraft sits on a runway awaiting takeoff. The United Kingdom recently scored a deal to ...

X-37B spaceplane leads an era as China’s Shenlong advances. What do these reusable craft mean for transparency, innovation, ...

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 ...

It was the seventh launch and landing for this particular booster, which previously sent the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B ...

Chinese scientists have expressed fears that the secret space plane of the U.S. military X-37B could be weaponized as a “space killer”. American space force’s X-37B plane embarked on its eighth ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 10, 2025, launched 21 satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON ...

A set of military communication and missile-tracking satellites is set to be launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket this Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket ...

University of Iowa graduate research assistant Jacob Payne uses nitrogen to dry off a mirror at Van Allen Hall in Iowa City on Friday. Payne — with guidance from UI Physics and Astronomy Associate ...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is carrying a sample of material that could some day help NASA land cargo and crew on Mars. The X-37B launched on its eighth mission on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX ...