California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air travel. Here's what to know.

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United States.

When standard physics said it couldn't be done, these designers rewrote the rules. Step inside the absolute limits of ...

The U.S. Army deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missiles for a multinational warfighting exercise last month in the Western ...

The U.S. Army has confirmed that it deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system ...

The B-52H Stratofortress is one of the most enduring symbols of American airpower — a bomber conceived in the early Cold War ...

The Navy is two years behind in its efforts to modernize destroyers that will first carry the service’s hypersonic missiles, a lag that has pushed back at-sea flight testing for the fearsome weapons ...

The U.S. Navy is now two years behind schedule in adding Conventional Prompt Strike ...

The GAO determined that the Navy is already roughly two years behind schedule on modernizing the Zumwalt-class destroyers as part of the more than $50 billion hypersonic effort.

The following is the July 17, 2026, Government Accountability Office report, Navy Ship Modernization: DoD Needs Comprehensive ...

The US’s first hypersonic weapon, already at least two years late for deployment in the field, is facing delays yet again — this time over unresolved production issues, according to congressional ...

Development of the SHARD demonstrator will lean on expertise built up through Team Hypersonics and testing performed more than 20 years ago. Credit: Team Hypersonics UK The UK is progressing an ...