NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...

NASA has taken another step in the development of the X-59, an experimental aircraft that promises to drastically reduce ...

The X-59’s shape is designed to prevent the shockwaves from coalescing together,” said NASA engineer Craig Nickol, outlining the fundamentals of a mission set to turn on its head a half-century of ...

The return of supersonic commercial flights over US soil is now in motion after President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting a 52-year federal ban. The directive, issued on June 6, ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...

NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this ...

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

The experimental aircraft has begun a series of low-speed taxi tests at contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first taxi test on July 10, the initial movement of the ...

The aircraft is projected to fly at approximately 990 mph, meaning it could potentially fly nonstop from London to New York ...