The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are competing unmanned space planes whose covert missions are getting more complex. See how the spacecraft compare.

The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are competing unmanned space planes whose covert missions are getting more complex. See how the spacecraft compare.

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 photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what ...

The X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) began life under the umbrella of NASA, but was passed to the US military, which created the X-37B variant. That model first flew in orbit in 2010 and the two ...

There aren’t a ton of specifics about what the military’s X-37B has been up to in space, but we now know one thing for certain: The view is pretty good. On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Space Force ...