NASA’s new experimental aircraft, the X-59, is one step closer to taking to the skies. This sleek, 100-foot-long plane, often ...

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

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

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

NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet, nicknamed the son of Concorde, could halve travel times between major cities like New York and Paris.

NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tested a model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic ...

The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight by reducing the loud ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind ...

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Earlier this week, NASA announced that the X-59 had arrived back at the Skunk Works facility after months of critical ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

NASA Renames Supersonic Test X-Plane as X-59 QueSST. Published: 29 Jun 2018, 08:11 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 6 photos. Photo: NASA. In 1947, the first manned supersonic flight took place.

NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over land quieter.