The unpiloted X-37B space plane is one of two winged orbiters used to carry out classified research. With its surprise landing early Sunday morning, it closed out its record 780-day mission. This was ...

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 ...

Should the eighth mission scheduled for August 21 occur as planned, it is believed that the X-37B spacecraft will spend more than a year in orbit. Each mission, except the first, has lasted over 400 ...

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 ...

The Air Force’s unmanned, reusable space plane landed in the early morning of June 16 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., a successful conclusion to a record-setting test-flight mission that began ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The unmanned Boeing-made aircraft landed at ...

The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, shared an image from orbit for the first time. The reusable orbital test vehicle captured the image of Earth last year during its seventh mission.