The X-37B is a reusable, unmanned U.S. spaceplane used as an orbital testbed since 2010. -Its long, classified missions and agile maneuvering fuel Chinese claims it could inspect or disable satellites ...

In collaboration with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a major research partner using its photonics-based quantum computing systems, IonQ says it has found a way to convert the ...

"We want to look at the effects of long-term exposure to space — as if the Zylon material is going for a potential six- to nine-month mission to Mars." ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

China appears to be setting up a system to import regular cargoes of liquefied natural gas from a Russian project sanctioned by the US, a move that will test the Trump administration’s willingness to ...

Boeing successfully completed 777X brake certification tests in Oklahoma, despite facing severe weather challenges that extended the testing period to over 63 days (double the initial projection). The ...