Boom Supersonic​ and NASA on Monday released an image of the XB-1 aircraft during its second supersonic flight last month.

Now here’s one for the mantelpiece. A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as America’s first civil supersonic jet completed its second flight at speeds exceeding ...

From the moment Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, zipping from New York to Paris in less than three hours became every traveler’s dream. It’s a dream that shattered as ...

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in late January with its XB-1 test jet, paving the way forward in the startup's efforts to build its own supersonic airliner. Boom and NASA released a unique ...

In 2023, China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ system became the first large-scale electromagnetic launcher to break ...