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 ...

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 ...

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

NASA teams on the ground at Mojave Space and Air Port in California used Schlieren photography — a process for photographing ...

A unique photograph captured another side of the historic test flight that paves the way for a next-generation jet to be ...