NASA is getting ready to go supersonic. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet designed to eventually travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight from California.

For more than five decades, a federal ban has blocked supersonic flight over the continental United States, largely because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of an expanded flight campaign aimed at ...

The X-59 is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating a loud sonic boom. The ultimate goal is to prove that quiet supersonic flight is a viable option for commercial airlines.

Just a few days after it announced it was getting ready to conduct the second test flight of the X-59, the American space agency NASA cleared the experimental aircraft to take off in its most ...

NASA says the X-59 returned to flight after a cockpit warning that cut short its second sortie proved to be a false positive.