NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

Nearly 80 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, new competition aims to unearth the next advancement in ...

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

What the FAA is saying now is, hey, the speed of the plane isn't the problem; the sonic boom's power is. So why not regulate ...

Proposed interim standards mark the agency's first major step to undo the decades-old ban.

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet thump.

Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...

The US is taking major steps to end its 50-year ban on overland supersonic flight, with the FAA planning new noise-based rules that could open the door to commercial passenger jets travelling at over ...

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...