Florida's Space Coast has become known for its rocket launches, which has notably increased in the past few years. Aside from the "ooh, ahh" factor of a launch virtually morning, noon or night − with ...

The US military's reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can ...

The X-37B spaceplane, an autonomous, reusable orbital test vehicle, launched on its eighth mission (OTV-8/USSF-36), focusing on testing satellite laser communications and navigation in GPS-denied ...

SpaceX shared four stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane into orbit on Aug. 21. SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket ...

The U.S. Department of Defense’s reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has embarked on its eighth overall flight into orbit. Vehicle 1, the first X-37B to fly, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from ...

The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force's mysterious X-37B space plane is underway. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 21, 2025, launched the U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to low Earth orbit for its eighth mission. Credit: SpaceX livestream WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off late Thursday, propelling a reusable X-37B Space Force rocket plane into space on a classified long-duration mission. It was the eighth such flight since the ...

Kepler is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Nationals. Kepler will be held out of the starting nine for the third time in five games. Though he's improved his production in August, he's ...

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.