The Delta 1, the first of Virgin Galactic’s new spaceplanes, completed structural assembly in April at the company’s facility in Mesa, Arizona. Credit: Virgin Galactic Suborbital space company Virgin ...

For the first time, we’re seeing an image from the record-breaking US military space plane while in Earth orbit. Over the weekend, the US Space Force shared a photo taken by the spacecraft X-37B ...

LONDON—Dassault Aviation and German satellite developer OHB have teamed up to propose Dassault’s Vortex-S spaceplane become a European Space Agency program. The two companies are proposing the ...

X-37B spaceplane is secretive and operates in orbit for research and testing, competing with China. Spaceplanes operate in ...

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 ...

NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after the agency first backed the concept. The lifting-body vehicle known as Dream ...

The private Dream Chaser space plane took to the skies Tuesday (May 29), kicking off a flight-test program that will vet the vehicle's ability to carry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. The ...

Last week, the US Space Force posted a photo online from its uncrewed X-37B space plane's seventh mission, showing the orbital test vehicle above our planet in High Earth Orbit. Now that's a selfie ...

In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change its orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

A U.S. X-37B space plane is slated to test a new way of rapidly changing its orbit, part of the Space Force’s quest for fuel-sipping maneuverability. The spacecraft will experiment with aerobraking, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) may never again be visited by a space plane. NASA's space shuttle orbiters were instrumental in building the ISS, and in keeping it operational for its first ...