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.

TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force is activating its new command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Friday. The new command, known as SPACECENT, will report directly to U.S. Central Command leaders ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eric Biernacki says his mother Christine Biernacki, was a "nerd," who "loved space and science fiction." Among her favorite shows was "Star Trek." “She grew up in the 60s, and 'Star ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The four-member crew of Axiom Space’s fourth private mission to the International Space Station has docked with the floating laboratory early Thursday morning for a two-week ...

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 ...

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Launch of secretive spacecraft will be streamed live Thursday night. In the dark of night, SpaceX will launch the mysterious X-37B space plane for the U.S. Space Force (USSF). A Falcon 9 rocket will ...

The moon, for now dubbed S/2025 U1, is just 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, which is why it was invisible to other telescopes and the Voyager 2 spacecraft when it made its 1986 flyby of the icy ...

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The X-37B space plane's latest mission, launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9, caused a sonic boom over Florida on August 21, 2025. This classified mission for the U.S. Space Force involves testing advanced ...