This week’s launch manifest will feature nine missions launching on seven different rockets, including the second launch of ...

Visitors to the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at The California Science Center will be able to see and explore the space ...

Initial flying qualities and air data performance were verified during the X-59’s flight, which will be expanded over the ...

After delays and concerns about progress, NASA and Lockheed Martin have announced that the experimental X-59 Quesst has taken to the skies. It was an unannounced flight, but the companies did release ...

Airplanes have been able to fly at supersonic speeds since the 1940s, although they are prohibited from conducting commercial flights over land because they produce a sonic boom that disturbs the ...

This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new image of the Milky Way across a wide range of radio ...

The X-59 features a distinctive elongated fuselage and wing design aimed at reducing sonic booms to a level of 75 decibels.

NASA and Lockheed Martin debuted their first test run of a low-volume supersonic jet that’s expected to allow air passengers to travel faster than the speed of sound.   The X-59 aircraft on ...

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils ...

How NASA Ames’ 80×120-foot wind tunnel became the beating heart of American aeronautics, testing everything from spacecraft ...

The compact, 100 foot (30 meter) plane launched from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, about 60 miles ...