One of the many ongoing missions of the US government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to make ...

The film documents the historic flight of the X1 aircraft, piloted by Captain Chuck Yeager, on October 14, 1947, when he ...

Despite all these technological advances, a supersonic aircraft still cannot beat physics. Shock waves, and their associated drag, will still exist. So, a single supersonic aircraft will still produce ...

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

When Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier last month, it achieved commercial supersonic flight for the first time ...