Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

When a reel of Baumgartner’s leap from the stratosphere crossed my feed today, I realized I had completely forgotten about the Red Bull Stratos feat. Next, I thought, surely this was just a couple of ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Independently developed jet makes new record, adding to its rigorous series of human-piloted test flights that will prepare ...

Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator aircraft, the XB-1, has made its first supersonic flight.

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

Two decades after Concorde's retirement, Boom Supersonic's test aircraft has broken the sound barrier for the first time ...

A sleek white aircraft has become the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 aircraft ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet just broke the sound barrier. Achieving Mach 1.112 is a milestone for the aerospace brand, which ...