NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

It’s a huge game changer ...

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...

NASA's X-59 jet has finally gone supersonic. The X-59, a long-nosed demonstrator designed to help develop the tech required for "quiet" supersonic flight, notched the milestone on Friday (June 5), ...

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

The U.S. Air Force is the entity responsible for assigning X-number designations to important experimental aircraft and rockets that dates back to 1947. The new experimental supersonic X-plane was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cross-country travel could one day look very different if NASA's newest experimental aircraft lives up to its promise as its ...

Regular supersonic flight in the United States may be closer than ever as NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft achieved supersonic speed Friday. The agency, in a blog post, said the achievement is a ...

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

NASA's X-59 jet is testing technology that could be crucial to reintroducing supersonic commercial air travel that's not only ...