Over the last 122 years of flight, there certainly hasn't been a lack of innovation. Engineers, designers, and pilots all ...

Hermeus aims to make planes for the U.S. military that travel over five times the speed of sound—and maybe even introduce the ...

Generally speaking, when an aircraft goes supersonic, everybody around it knows it, as the sonic boom it generates when breaking through the sound barrier makes no secret of what is going on. Could ...

At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has long been the source for some of the world's most amazing aircraft, and its newest one is keeping that trend going. On March 9, 2026, DARPA ...

Lockheed Martin's experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production, the defense giant announced Friday. Earlier this year, NASA awarded Lockheed a contract worth nearly $250 million to ...

JAXA successfully tested a hydrogen-powered aircraft at Mach 5, pushing commercial aviation beyond Concorde-era ambitions.

Solar Impulse 2, the pioneering aircraft known for the first round-the-world solar flight, was lost during an uncrewed flight, ending its decade-long journey in the skies.