From the moment Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, zipping from New York to Paris in less than three hours became every traveler’s dream. It’s a dream that ...

For the first time, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft has moved under its own power, officially kicking off its “taxi ...

“XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight – without an audible boom,” Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, said in a statement.

The speed of sound is known as Mach 1 (767 mph), and when an object moves beyond this, it's called "breaking the sound barrier." This is also known as supersonic flight, a scientific term ...

The company plans to fly the planes at Mach 0.94 – just below the speed of sound – when traveling over land, moving up to Mach 1.7 over water, in order to comply with current regulations.

Boom Supersonic and NASA just dropped an incredible photo of the XB-1 breaking the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. Using Schlieren photography, they captured air distortions that are usually ...