Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

Credit: Boom Supersonic/Cover Images Commercial aircraft will soon be ready to break the sound barrier again as Boom ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The ...

Twenty-one years later, the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 commercial supersonic jet made its maiden flight in December 1968, but it had ceased operation by the early 70s. Concorde came into being soon after.

Commercial planes fill the skies carrying passengers and cargo. How fast do they typically fly, and what are the maximum ...

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, among many other historic firsts. The first supersonic ...

Kaeberlein is co-director of the Dog Aging Project, an ambitious research effort to track the aging process of tens of thousands of companion dogs across the US. He is one of a handful of scientists ...