Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would military aircraft be allowed to do so?

Supersonic commercial travel became a reality after Concorde began flights with British Airways and Air France in January ...

NASA’s supersonic “Son of Concorde” plane which will halve the travel time between London and New York is zooming ever closer ...

Boom’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft just broke the sound barrier, making history as the first independently produced American-made jet to ever fly at supersonic speeds in the U.S.

The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. What's next for mach ...

NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil supersonic jet, completed its second supersonic flight.

(CNN) — Now here’s one for the mantelpiece. A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America’s first civil supersonic jet completed its second flight at ...