NASA’s X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock diamonds, during maximum afterburner testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The test ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

The American space agency plans to have a supersonic aircraft called X-59 in the air sometime this year, with a major goal in mind. It's a momentous occasion for aviation, as the research aircraft ...

The X-59 will generate a quieter thump rather than a loud boom while flying faster than the speed of sound. The aircraft is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which will provide regulators with ...

Credit: NASA EDWARDS AFB, California—NASA and Lockheed Martin have completed key engine and electromagnetic interference (EMI) checks on the X-59 Quesst quiet supersonic research aircraft ...

“We expect the X-59 sonic thump to be as low as about 75 perceived loudness decibels,” Larry Cliatt, sub-project manager for the Quesst acoustic validation phase, said in an update last year.

As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American ...

NASA's X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock diamonds, during maximum afterburner testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The test ...