A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

Cardman will command Crew-11, which could launch as soon as July. Joining her are NASA colleague Mike Fincke, Japanese ...

Frozen fuel from the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday created a luminous display for several minutes, and was seen by people ...

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The X-37B, developed by Boeing, was conducting a range of maneuvers and testing "space domain awareness technology" while orbiting Earth on Mission 7 of the new platform. Mission 7 was the first ...

The U.S. military’s experimental space plane, the X-37B, touched down in secrecy, its journey ending just as mysteriously as it began. After spending 434 days orbiting Earth, the un-crewed ... the ...

(AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling ... atmospheric drag to slow down, saving fuel. It’s “an exciting new chapter in the ...

But space is getting ... the lowest orbiting debris takes only a few months to get dragged down. But most satellites operate in a zone called “low Earth orbit,” between 200 and 2,000 ...

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 nearly 30 feet long, it's one-fourth the size of NASA's retired Space Shuttle ... its orbit using minimal fuel." "Aerobraking" involves using close passes by Earth's atmosphere to produce ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A secretive Space Force ship has returned to earth after spending 434 days in orbit ... This method of trajectory-change also preserved fuel, allowing the mission to last for the extended period.