For more than 50 years, one obstacle has prevented routine supersonic passenger travel over land: the deafening sonic boom.

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 ...

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

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 ...

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United ...

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 ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

The US plans to replace a 53-year-old supersonic flight ban with new noise-based rules ...

Traveling at the speed of sound may actually be on the horizon. NASA’s supersonic aircraft, dubbed “son of Concorde” after its predecessor, successfully broke the sound barrier for the first time. The ...

US aeronautics agency NASA managed to capture the Boom Supersonic XB-1 research aircraft as it broke the sound barrier during its final flight on 10 February. The flight – the XB-1’s second in excess ...

The Federal Aviation Administration in 1973 prohibited civil aircraft from exceeding Mach 1 over US land to prevent disruptive sonic booms ...