Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, shared an image from orbit for the first time. The reusable orbital test ...

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 released ...

The US military’s top secret X-37B space plane, which has been orbiting the Earth since December 2023 on its current mission, has slammed on the brakes. As detailed in a Boeing Space video, the plane ...

The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot Jupiter, ...

Piyush Mehta receives funding from multiple federal agencies - NASA, NSF, NOAA, IARPA, and DoD. When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag.

X-37B started executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change from a highly elliptical orbit to a lower orbit. Reading time 2 minutes After seven test flights, Boeing is finally starting to open ...

While the official story is that it is conducting experiments in radiation effects and Space Domain Awareness technologies while in a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO), the details of what else it's doing ...

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close to their star, whirling around in a few days compared to ...