The entrance to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Patrick Leonini / Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum The newly reopened halls at the Smithsonian’s National ...

The Dream Chaser is the result of a combined effort by NASA and the private company Sierra Space. The private plane is intended to be reusable, allowing for multiple flights to and from Earth and the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic still expects to resume taking civilians to space by the end of 2026 as it looks to begin ground testing for its new spaceplane.

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. spaceplane will head to the heavens next month to test a quantum sensor that could help navigation in orbit without GPS, and to demonstrate new methods of space-based communications, the Space ...

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 ...

Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow made by Scout Space and carried by Dawn Aerospace's Aurora spaceplane to the ...