Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated ...

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

NASA has completed the engine ground tests on its supersonic jet, which is expected to take to skies later this year. The X-59 jet is Nasa and Lockheed Martin’s joint offering, which the ...

The Concorde was also a very loud plane at takeoff, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. NASA and Lockheed ...

NASA says the X59 supersonic jet will produce a sonic thump instead of a sonic boom, which might help lower it's noise.

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

American space agency NASA announced it has concluded the ground engine tests for the X-59 supersonic airplane, first flight coming later this year ...

But, in messages posted to the social media company known as X, formerly called Twitter, Scholl posted that FAA regulation prohibits supersonic flight over land regardless of the plane's profile.

Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic flight without an audible sonic boom on the ground below. CEO Blake Scholl hopes supersonic passenger flight will eventually be allowed in ...

Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster.