A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

An unpiloted spaceplane took off from a runway, soared to 67,000 ft at Mach 1.03, and tested rapid detection tech for ...

More than two decades after Concorde’s retirement, commercial aviation is once again preparing to break the sound barrier.

Following a series of envelope expansion flight tests, NASA will officially take delivery of the X-59 and fly it within a supersonic test range at Armstrong Flight Research Center and Edwards Air ...

Will passengers ever break the sound barrier again? - Exclusive: Zoom may make life difficult for Boom, the most serious enterprise working on ‘son of Concorde’ ...

NASA scientists are advancing supersonic parachutes with advanced sensors to make it more reliable and safer at delivering ...

Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The ...

US aerospace firm wants to accept passengers by the end of 2029. But what was Concorde, its famous supersonic plane predecessor?

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone ...

The test involved supersonic planes from the U.S. Air Force that conducted flights over the Oklahoma City metro area in 1964. For six months, up to eight sonic booms each day were generated by ...