NASA’s X-59 is an experimental aircraft designed to solve one of the biggest problems with supersonic flight: the sonic boom.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 is quietly reaching significant milestones. The X-59 went supersonic for the first time on June 5, reaching a top ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

NASA's X-59 jet has finally gone supersonic. The X-59, a long-nosed demonstrator designed to help develop the tech required for "quiet" supersonic flight, notched the milestone on Friday (June 5), ...

For years now, NASA has been working on the X-59, a supersonic jet that’s also super quiet, reaching ludicrous speeds without sounding like it’s tearing a hole in the sky. According to NASA, that ...

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 ...

NASA has already proved that its needle-nosed X-59 can move seriously fast in recent test flights. Now, the next step is to find out whether it can break the sound barrier without announcing its ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is set to begin its first supersonic test flights this month, initially aiming to exceed Mach 1.0 at 43,000 feet and later reaching Mach 1.4 at 55,000 ...

NASA's experimental X-59 jet has successfully flown faster than the speed of sound for the first time from the Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft is designed to break the sound barrier ...

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, in what some say could be the first step toward much faster commercial travel.

Supersonic commercial air travel could be on the horizon once again, and NASA is one step closer to making it a reality. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet recently traveled faster than the ...