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 ...

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 ...

On April 3, 2026, NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less pulled the landing gear up on the X-59 quiet supersonic jet for the first time in the aircraft’s history and kept flying for 90 minutes over the ...

NASA announced the four astronauts that will join the next Artemis mission — a test flight vital to putting astronauts back on the surface of the moon.

June 9 (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a docking demonstration involving three spacecraft in Earth's orbit ...

NASA’s X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its flight envelope. NASA’s experimental X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) ...

Nothing seemed amiss as NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet touched down after its second test in the air, smoothly coasting onto the runway. But the sleek, needle-nosed airplane had completed ...