Supersonic tunnel trials suggest the X-59’s shape can scatter shock waves, paving the way for hush-hush high-speed flight.

After Nick Sheryka's dreams of flying for the U.S. military were dashed because of hearing loss in his left ear, he didn't ...

NASA researchers have been using a tiny aircraft dubbed “Son of Concorde” in trials to assess the impact of supersonic ...

NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect ...

American space agency NASA sent a 19-inch scale version of the X-59 experimental aircraft to a Japanese wind tunnel for ...

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, carrying the Ax-4 crew, is expected to splash down off the coast of San Diego at 2:31 a.m. PT on ...

Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 ...

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...

NASA is developing a Mach 4 passenger jet that could cut international flight times by more than half. If successful, it would break speed records while solving the noise issues that doomed previous ...

While Boom Supersonic boasted about there being no audible sonic boom on the ground during the final test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator in February, its prospective airliner still isn't allowed ...

HIGH POINT — North Carolina’s two U.S. senators introduced a bill Wednesday to change a decades-old law that could severely limit the development of supersonic flights by Boom Supersonic ...

"Supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom should obviously be allowed," Scholl said. "The ban on supersonic has held back progress for more than half a century.