NASA's X-59 successfully reduced sonic booms from thunder-level 105 decibels to whisper-quiet 75 decibels, potentially ending the 50-year supersonic flight ban.

Humankind is always on a quest for speed: You can ride the fastest rollercoaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and the fastest land speed record was achieved in 1997 ...

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...

The aviation world has entered a remarkable new chapter with the successful first flight of the Lockheed Martin X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft developed in partnership with NASA. On October ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is catching up with Boom Supersonic by flying its X-59 experimental quiet supersonic aircraft for the first time. Boom has not only flown its test aircraft, but achieved ...

Commercial supersonic travel just got one step closer to reality, as Lockheed Martin has just made its first successful flight with the X-59 prototype for NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) ...

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

NASA has revealed more detail about the recent first flight of its X-59 Quesst supersonic demonstrator jet, a milestone the agency describes as demonstrating its continued ability to manage ...

At the time when most of us were getting ready to unpack our Christmas gifts, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was already celebrating: on December 22, it received two F ...

Boom Supersonic is now providing turbines to data centers to help fuel the AI boom. The company’s CEO says the move won’t detract from its ambitions of reviving supersonic flight. Boom Supersonic — ...