In 1967, the F-4 Phantom fighter jet produced the strongest sonic boom ever recorded and hit a remarkable overpressure of 144 ...

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic ...

CHINA has thrown itself into the supersonic passenger jet race with its C949 plane that can zoom from London to New York in ...

The English Electric Lightning may not be as well-knwon as some American fighters, but this British supersonic jet had quite ...

China say the C949 could reduce Britain to New York journey time from the usual seven hours to less than half that, making ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

The main benefit of supersonic travel is the reduction in flight time. A three-hour flight across the Atlantic could make a day trip possible from the U.S. to London or Paris, essentially saving ...

Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a ...

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

Aerion's AS2 business jet will serve a wealthy clientele at supersonic speeds. An alliance with CO2 direct air capture company, Carbon Engineering, may provide the AS2 with a carbon neutral ...