Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to achieve the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner, which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound barrier for the first ...

MOJAVE, Calif. - XB-1 became the first American-made private supersonic jet to fly faster than the speed of sound as Boom Supersonic works toward building a fleet of supersonic jets for commercial ...

The countdown has begun for the XB-1’s “historic” first supersonic test flight that should break the sound barrier, according to Boom Supersonic. The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1 ...

Will Boom Supersonic fulfill the dream of the Concorde and shuttle people across the sky at up to 60,000 feet? Will enough people pay thousands of dollars for faster flight times? Can Boom meet ...

A Chinese company working on a commercial transport plane capable of flying at Mach-4, twice the speed of the Concorde - unveiled the prototype of its next-generation supersonic aircraft ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, scientists have detected supersonic jetstream winds hurtling around the planet’s equator at astonishing speeds of ...