NASA's X-59 jet looks ready to fly into the sunset in this new image taken before its second test flight.

At the end of October 2025, American space agency NASA finally flew, for the first time, its brand-new X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. It was a rather short, unspectacular flight, but it ...

The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission labeled Flight 90, a routine test profile slipped just far enough out of ...

TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. It’s been 52 years since the artist Jeff Gates made a reservation to go to the ...

The suborbital launch with Michi Benthaus "will be an important step for opening up space travel to all who have orbital dreams." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...