NASA's 'quiet' supersonic jet is getting ready to take off NASA is continuing development of the X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft designed to make sonic booms quieter. The X-59 is not ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first ...

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

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...

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

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...

A startup wants to revive the Concorde for the generations of flyers that missed out, without the noisy boom and the up to ...

Two weeks ago, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane made history when it broke the sound barrier over the continental ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 creates a sonic boom inaudible from the ground below when flying at the exact right speed and altitude ...

Boom Supersonic plans to build the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, and this week announced a breakthrough in the ...