At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...

An impressive aircraft that can whizz from London to New York in just four hours is almost ready to take-off. NASA's X-59 is a supersonic research aircraft that is expected to reach speeds of up to ...

For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...