The race for quiet supersonic flight takes a leap forward with NASA's X-59. But what challenges remain before it becomes a ...

NASA's X-59 aircraft uses radical design to reduce sonic booms to 75-decibel thumps, potentially ending the 50-year ban on ...

The craft is part of the US space agency's mission to find a way for ordinary planet travel to become much faster. Find out more here.

There hasn't been a supersonic commercial aircraft since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003. NASA is trying to change that. The Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST will test technology to fly faster, ...

The aircraft is undergoing its final round of tests before it finally takes to the sky for the first time. NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet continues to make its way toward the runway. The X-59 was ...

It's been a long time coming, but the first flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, made by NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a means to prove that quiet supersonic flight is possible, is more ...

NASA's X-59 aircraft was put through its paces for cruising high above the California – all without ever leaving the hangar. NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft was developed by Lockheed ...