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'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 test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency's Quesst ...

NASA's experimental aircraft, X-59, developed with Lockheed Martin, has entered the taxi test phase, moving closer to its first flight.

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

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, a 99-foot experimental aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin, has entered the taxi test phase at California’s ...

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

Over the coming weeks, testing will ramp up until the Lockheed Martin vehicle is travelling at a speed just short of the ...

An international crew is readying for Thursday's planned launch of a NASA mission to the International Space Station after ...

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...