The photograph, captured by NASA, shows the shock waves surrounding Boom Supersonic's demonstrator aircraft, the X-B-ONE, as it completed its second flight at speeds exceeding Mach 1.

NASA teams on the ground used Schlieren photography to capture the shock waves around Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft XB-1 as it pushed through the air.

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

An image released on Monday has captured the moment a civilian jet broke the sound barrier during a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The photograph, supplied by NASA and Boom ...

Discover how NASA's groundbreaking X-59 aircraft aims to break the sound barrier in silence, paving the way for a new era of quiet supersonic travel. Recent wind tunnel tests reveal promising results.

Sound—in the form of shock waves—helps sculpt the beautiful, delicate structures of some supernova remnants, such as those seen here in a Hubble Space Telescope image of the Veil Nebula.

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.

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (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 ...