Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...

American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator marked a milestone by breaking the sound barrier. The company aims to launch supersonic airliners by 2029, dreaming of faster journeys such as a four-hour flight ...

A Carnegie Mellon University grad is behind the successful flight earlier this week of the first independently developed jet ...

Despite the ultrafast speed, Deng said passengers on such supersonic aircraft will be completely safe from acceleration effects. The company's plan has become the latest endeavor by humans to revive ...

Today’s a day I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade,” said Blake Scholl, Boom's visionary founder and chief ...

In a world where speed is often synonymous with progress, a small startup with just 140 employees has made a groundbreaking ...

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 within about 11 minutes of taking off, according to Boom Supersonic and live video ...

Boom's Overture commercial airliners would be built at the Greensboro Superfactory.