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.

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

Supersonic airliner developer Boom is making its NBAA-BACE debut this year, with rival Spike also advancing its quest to ...

French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot has said he is convinced that Concorde flights will resume -- despite the supersonic jet being grounded following the disaster near Paris two months ago.

Supersonic air travel feels simultaneously like our past and our future. Although it may have once seemed like an impossible feat, engineers cracked the code and broke the sound barrier back in 1947.

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

Supersonic jet the Concorde first took off in 1969, then started offering incredibly fast commercial flights from 1979. The ...

Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The company ...

The airline will be able to fly from New York to London, for example, in three hours 40 minutes, so New York to Palma, for ...

United is buying the supersonic jet from Boom Supersonic, a privately held upstart aircraft maker based in Denver. The plane, dubbed the "Overture," is slated to be completed by 2025, start test ...