With Luanniao, China is promoting a giant space aircraft carrier as a new superweapon. Is it a vision for war in space — or ...

The WB-57 is a high-altitude research aircraft operated by NASA and based in Houston. Here’s what the plane is and what it’s used for.

Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary - SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that can rapidly deploy small ...

(NewsNation) — A Seattle aerospace startup has been awarded a $60 million contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop a rapid satellite deployment system to launch new satellites into orbit if ...

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 ...

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 ...

China has unveiled the concept of Luanniao, a massive space-based aircraft carrier designed to operate at the edge of space.

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 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 ...

There's a reason no one's built a more successful orbital spaceplane than the old Space Shuttle. Even then, the world's first operational spacecraft to launch like a rocket and land like an airplane ...

FAA guidance comes amid an uptick in commercial spaceflight, including 2025 test flights of SpaceX’s gargantuan Starship ...

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 ...