Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is getting ready to go supersonic. The U.S. space agency's experimental X-59 jet designed to eventually travel faster than ...

NASA and GE Aerospace in December hit a key milestone in their quest to develop hybrid-electric engine technology for the next decade of commercial aviation. The partners on Tuesday revealed they ...

NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of an expanded flight campaign aimed at reshaping the future of high-speed travel. The experimental jet, part ...

A new ion engine has been tested in a lab, proving itself to be 25 times more powerful than NASA's current state-of-the-art one. This advanced technology could one day assist humans in reaching Mars.

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday. The X-59 Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic ...