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

NASA has begun testing a new supersonic aircraft, almost 22 years after Concorde flew its last passenger service. The “quiet” ...

What is required to transform the thunderous crack of a sonic boom into a mere whisper across the sky? On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California ...

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

Agency's final stage of X-59 ground testing will culminate in the experimental model's inaugural flight, targeted for later ...

NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...

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NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind ...

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

Earlier this week, NASA announced that the X-59 had arrived back at the Skunk Works facility after months of critical ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over land quieter.

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