The plane spent 780 continuous days in orbit conducting classified experiments for the US Air Force before autonomously landing itself.

For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from high above Africa.

The uncrewed X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 on a secret mission. Launched by SpaceX, the X-37B vehicle carried no people, just military experiments.

When New York Comic Con got wind of what exactly the new Science Channel show "Secret Space Escapes" had in mind for their panel, they decided they'd better get a bigger room.

Top-secret military spaceplanes certainly know how to make an entrance. The news that the military had a space shuttle quietly orbiting Earth for more than 700 days came as a surprise to some. Why ...

A handful of the 135 space shuttle missions were classified, and little is known about these secret missions, even 30 years after the fact.

The mysterious X-37b has just broken the record for the most time in orbit around the Earth, now clocking in at 721 days of a top-secret Air Force mission. The mini-Space-Shuttle-like probes have ...

The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 on a secret mission. Launched by SpaceX, the X-37B vehicle carried no people, just military experiments.