For more than five decades, a federal ban has blocked supersonic flight over the continental United States, largely because ...

NASA's "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet took to the skies for the second time ever on Friday (March 20), but it didn't stay up for long.

NASA says the X-59 returned to flight after a cockpit warning that cut short its second sortie proved to be a false positive.

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is getting ready to go supersonic. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet designed to eventually travel faster than ...

Envelope expansion will begin a gradual push of the supersonic aircraft’s height and speed capabilities, working toward Mach ...

NASA’s flight-test program for its X-59 supersonic demonstrator has begun to pick up steam, now prepping for a fifth flight ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of an expanded flight campaign aimed at ...

The X-59 is the product of a research program NASA started back in 2016 with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. The program is ...

Though the X-59 was designed to negate the “sonic boom” typically found on supersonic aircraft, it has stayed well short of ...

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