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 secret X-37B was built by Boeing for the U.S. Space Force / Air Force. Friday afternoon, a photo of the Earth was posted to social media — taken from a space plane shrouded in mystery. The plane ...

The U.S. military's X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on the spacecraft. The space plane has been conducting radiation-effect ...

The United States Space Force released a rare photo of its secretive X-37B space plane in orbit. The image, shared on X by the agency, is the first-ever image that has been shown to the public from ...

The U.S. Space Force's robotic space plane X-37B returned to Earth has returned to Earth after spending more than 434 days in ...

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The US Air Force's mysterious X-37B completed its most recent mission over the weekend, landing at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base over the weekend after spending the last 674 days in space.

The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are unmanned spacecraft that play secretive roles in space. Space-based technology has long given the US military an edge. A space plane like the Shenlong could be an ...

Editor's note: The video above is from August when the vehicle broke its own record for most days in space. An unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane returned to Earth Sunday morning after more than two ...

In context: Boeing and NASA began developing the first Orbital Test Vehicles in the X-37 series in 1999, with the first X-37 drone entering service in 2010. Now managed by the US Air Force Space ...

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 ...