An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

The X-15 program pushed human flight into hypersonic speeds and the edge of space long before the Space Shuttle, with pilots like Neil Armstrong and Joe Walker shattering altitude records and crossing ...

The world's first hydrogen-fueled hypersonic jet may be able to reach a simply astounding speed of 12 times the speed of ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2025 conducted high-speed, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft tests, supporting aeronautics, air mobility, and Earth observation through experimental flights ...

If you travel fast enough past the speed of sound, you enter hypersonic territory, but attaining those speeds comes with a lot of challenges.

Maverick, Tom Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell pushes the experimental Darkstar beyond Mach 10. But how fast actually is ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said a medium-range system armed with Moscow's latest Oreshnik hypersonic missiles would be placed on combat duty by the end of the year, after the weapon was used for ...

I always get nostalgic when I come to Houston, the “Space City,” as I did for Saturday’s Texas Bowl between LSU and the ...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build ...

US President Donald Trump unveils plan for a Trump-class battleship as part of a sweeping push to modernize the US Navy and ...

President Donald Trump announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that he ...