NASA's X-59 supersonic jet ended its second test just nine minutes into flight, ending the one-hour event almost as soon as it began because of a system warning. - NASA / Jim Ross Nothing seemed amiss ...

A render of the X-59 quiet supersonic airplane flying above the desert. - Lockheed Martin For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

An innovative set of four small spacecraft were launched early Thursday aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission is designed to evaluate both the performance of ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft has made its highest and fastest flights so far, expanding its operational range and making progress toward supersonic ...

NASA has tested some of the strangest aircraft designs in history, but few are as bizarre as the oblique wing aircraft—an experimental plane with one forward-swept wing and one backward-swept wing.

NASA has begun a new phase of flight testing with the experimental laminar-flow wing concept known as the CATNLF (Compact Advanced Technology Nonplanar Laminar Flow). The technology has been installed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 supersonic jet ended its second test just nine minutes into flight, ending the one-hour event almost as soon as it ...