Experimental aircraft is rumored to be part of agency's Max Power expo and airshow at Kennedy Space Center in November.

On the anniversary of its first flight, NASA's X-59 QueSST has started its first journey east from California, headed to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s experimental X-59 plane in flight on June 5, 2026, the first time the aircraft has reached supersonic speeds. NASA's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just days after NASA's experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet is designed to surpass the speed of sound without producing sonic booms. Here's the latest on testing.

The U.S. Air Force is the entity responsible for assigning X-number designations to important experimental aircraft and rockets that dates back to 1947. The new experimental supersonic X-plane was ...

Air travel could once again move at the speed of sound. On Friday, while we were counting down the hours until the weekend, NASA took to the skies with its supersonic plane, the X-59, towards its ...

Not only did the X-59 increase its pace of flight testing, but it also hit a new top speed. During one of the week's flights, the aircraft reached Mach 1.53 (approximately 1,010 mph), its fastest ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

For nearly 11 years, test pilot Mike Lippert pushed high-performance aircraft to maximum performance.

NASA announced the four-person crew that will make up the Artemis III mission, giving more details about the roughly two-week mission that calls for Orion to dock with both a Blue Origin and SpaceX ...