Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic, which was working on commercial and military faster-than-sound jets, shutdown after ...

During the Nov. 5 test flight, which lasted 55 minutes, XB-1 reached an altitude of 23,015 feet (7,015 meters) and a new top ...

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its ...

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

American space agency NASA announced it has begun engine testing for the X-59 experimental aircraft, first flight expected early next year.

The company was making progress: It hit a major milestone earlier this year when it flew its first aircraft, a subscale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident, in a test flight in ...

The latest test flight was piloted by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. Along with breaking the plane’s speed record, his flight also reached new ...

Why don’t we have supersonic aircraft any more? Although commercial supersonic air travel kicked off in the 1960s with the arrival of the Concorde, since that jet was retired in 2003 ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more about the equipment they will be using here. Credit: NASA ...