The sonic booms that heavily restrained supersonic air travel could be a thing of the past.

NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

Nearly 80 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, new competition aims to unearth the next advancement in ...

Supersonic airliner startup Boom Technologies has launched an $800,000 prize for the first U.S. amateur team to fly a remotely piloted, air-breathing aircraft above Mach 1 in level flight twice in one ...

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

Prize competitions have long played a role in advancing aviation, from the Daily Mail prize for the first flight across the English Channel won by Louis Blériot in 1908 to the Ansari X Prize for ...

What the FAA is saying now is, hey, the speed of the plane isn't the problem; the sonic boom's power is. So why not regulate the latter instead of the former?

The US is taking major steps to end its 50-year ban on overland supersonic flight, with the FAA planning new noise-based rules that could open the door to commercial passenger jets travelling at over ...

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet thump.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) just announced a new proposal that would lift the just-over 50-year ban on supersonic flights over the continental U.S. Under the suggested guidelines, the ...