When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

One of the many ongoing missions of the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to make ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took another successful ... which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to commercial supersonic flight over land by ...

NASA is pushing the boundaries of supersonic travel with its experimental X-59 jet, a sleek, needle-shaped aircraft designed ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...

NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer To Flight After Passing Next Test Phase is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ...

While the U.S. Space Force, and its previous operator the U.S. Air Force, have been tightlipped about what the space plane ...

The X-59 jet is Nasa and Lockheed Martin's joint offering, which the pair hope will retire the deafening sonic boom that is usually associated with supersonic aircraft. The X-59 is designed to hit ...

According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation similar to the Space Shuttle, however it is smaller, ...