The House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee held a hearing today on NASA’s proposed Integrated Space Transportation Plan and the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program in particular. It was the first ...

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 ...

The director of the program to build an orbital space plane said Monday that administrators have told him to continue development of the vehicle in time for a 2010 liftoff. In November, NASA ...

The Pentagon has kept a tight lid on details about the Space Force's secretive spaceplane that is perpetually flying 500 miles above Earth's surface. But the Department of Defense (DoD) has released a ...

The Planetary Society today endorsed the call by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph Hall (D-TX) to defer the decision to start development of the ...

China's reusable space plane has released another unknown object into Earth's orbit during its third mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Russia is a waning space power, but President Vladimir Putin has made sure he still has a saber to rattle in orbit. This has become more evident in recent weeks, when we saw a pair of rocket launches ...

Space debris dynamics and orbital evolution represent a critical area of research that addresses both the natural progression and the anthropogenic influences on the population of objects orbiting the ...