Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

NATIONWIDE — Citing that SpaceX is behind schedule with its Starship that will be used for the Artemis III mission, NASA acting Administrator Sean Duffy said on Monday that the U.S. space agency is ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...

As the standard bearer for supersonic travel, Concorde carried passengers from London and Paris to destinations such as New ...

Once passenger flights had been discontinued, the then-Soviet airline Aeroflot operated an updated variant, called the ...

NASA releases unseen 3I/ATLAS images following the US government shutdown. Discover why this ancient interstellar visitor is ...

D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, reaching Mach 7 and Mach 9.6 in 2004. -The natural next step was a ...

On New Glenn’s second launch, Blue Origin’s heavy-lift rocket—the key to its lunar ambitions—sends two NASA probes on their ...

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The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst, which stands for "Quiet SuperSonic Technology," is an experimental aircraft developed by Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works. That's the same organization that developed ...

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, ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...