Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, a step toward the possible return of ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, ...

After the first test flights in 2025, Lockheed Martin will transfer the plane to NASA. Then, after acoustic testing over ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if history doesn’t repeat itself.

What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many ...

Lockheed Martin has been building the X-59 for NASA, as part of a project to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft that can break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms ...

But with NASA's X-59 plane ... to gauge the 100-foot-long experimental craft's ability to quell the unsettling supersonic booms. To quell the booms an aircraft makes when breaking the sound ...