NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025, an ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that creates a powerful sonic boom -- a huge noise that travels down to the ground below like a ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...

Look up in the sky! No, really, look. Are those planes supposed to be that low? But don’t worry, says NASA, because the aircraft you are seeing are conducting research and studying atmospheric data.

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to ...