SpaceX has secured a contract to launch the uncrewed X-37B spaceplane, a secret military spacecraft created by the U.S. Air Force that's kind of like a compact space shuttle, but whose functional ...

After spending more than a year orbiting our planet on a hush-hush mystery mission, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is due to return to Earth any day now. Air Force officials haven't announced ...

An Air Force photographer snapped this profile view of the X-37B shortly after its landing on Dec. 3, 2010, which marked the end of the secret vehicle's maiden space mission. Despite its robotic ...

The secretive X-37B spaceplane has just returned from its latest highly classified, long-duration mission. On Mar. 7, 2025, at 07.22 UTC (2.22AM EST), the Boeing X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Space Force's X-37B space plane, launched in December 2023, remains in orbit conducting experiments and maneuvers. The X-37B, designed to operate between 150-500 miles above Earth, recently ...

An X-37B space plane touches down at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 17, 2014 to end a 22-month secret mission for the U.S. military. It marked the third X-37B space plane flight since ...

Personnel attend to the unmanned U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 4. The X-37B — the Air Force's ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle — just ...