Sonic booms have long been a barrier to overland supersonic flights. The Concorde was banned from virtually every country in the world because of the thundering noise. Only the US, Great Britain, and ...

As a result, researchers are exploring new and novel ways to dial down the volume. They are turning to highly specialized materials and structures designed to buffer, baffle, and block sound waves.

The silhouette of Boom's plane streaking across the sky is rendered in vivid shades of orange with the jet exhaust a pale ...

A "son of Concorde" aircraft that may one day fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours has reached supersonic speeds. An ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic release a stunning photo of the XB-1 jet breaking the sound barrier, showcasing the future of faster ...

In a stunning, glowing image, NASA has captured the moment that Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

A ground-based NASA team used Schlieren photography to capture and visualize the shock waves created by XB-1's supersonic ...

Boom Supersonic, the company aiming to create commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of sound, have successfully tested their XB-1 jet. According to the company and NASA, the jet was ...

NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America's first civil supersonic jet completed ...

A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of ...