NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...

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

The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early ...

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...

What is required to transform the thunderous crack of a sonic boom into a mere whisper across the sky? On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California ...

The experimental aircraft has begun a series of low-speed taxi tests at contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in ...

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a California runway at low speed using its own power for the first time on July 10, ...

Supersonic tunnel trials suggest the X-59’s shape can scatter shock waves, paving the way for hush-hush high-speed flight.

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier ...

NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...

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Work continues on NASA's new supersonic X-plane, the X-59 test vehicle, despite closures and delays in the space industry caused by the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel ...