Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new ...

Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...

Stratolaunch previously announced it received $24.7 million from the Missile Defense Agency for a hypersonic flight test targeted for late 2025.

(NewsNation) — The Department of Defense announced Monday the United States successfully completed two test flights of a reusable hypersonic aircraft, marking a significant step in the development of ...

Varda's W-3 capsule landed successfully May 13 at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. (Varda Space Industries) Varda Space Industries, a California-based, in-orbit manufacturing company, ...

LOS ANGELES — Engineers at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center are completing key load tests on elements of a large hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) that ultimately could enable ...

Imagine a future where global travel takes mere hours. Where a flight from New York to Tokyo is faster than watching a movie. This is the promise of hypersonics: speeds over 3,800 miles per hour (Mach ...