First Lt. Maurielle Pankau, a 183rd Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst planner, participates in the Shadow Operations Center — Nellis "Experiment 3" on June 13, 2025. (Airman 1st ...

The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will return to orbit May 16. (Jeremy Webster/ U.S. Air Force) When the secretive X-37B space plane returns to orbit on May 16, it will be carrying more ...

You're sitting in physics class, working on a traditional problem involving forces and acceleration, when you start to wonder where these terms even came from. Were they just dreamed up to bring ...

Capt. Bryan Bailey uses an on board computer to translate information received from a drop sonde into coordinates for a precision air drop March 18, 2010, at Altus Air Force Base, Okla. Captain Bailey ...

A multi-functional team of experts from across several major commands received the 2017 Daedalian Colonel Franklin C. Wolfe Weapon Systems Award at a Sept. 20 ceremony at the Wright-Patterson Air ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein, left, chats with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson after flying Textron's AT-6 as part of the service's light-attack experiment, held August 2017 at ...

STP-H7, launched on Dec. 21, 2021, is a U.S. Space Force science experiment installed on the International Space Station to collect data. Credit: U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The Space Force is ...

Col. Eric Felt, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, speaks June 4, 2020, during a SpaceNews virtual event. WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory announced ...

The US military is sending its X-37B space plane back into space later this month, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said Wednesday. The Air Force doesn't often say much about the X-37B, but Barrett ...