This was a big moment ...

On April 3, 2026, NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft tucked its landing gear into the fuselage and flew clean for the first time, completing a 90-minute test flight that reached 20,000 feet and a top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft conducted its first flight in Oct. 2025. The team behind the plane talks about it. Credit: ...

NASA is continuing to speed up the rate of X-59 flight tests as the Quesst low-boom supersonic demonstrator program builds up to its first Mach 1 faster-than-sound milestone flight. The needle nose ...

The space agency released a video of its experimental aircraft performing a series of maneuvers as it soared over California’s Mojave desert. The X-59, built by aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin, ...

The X-59 has flown on nine more occasions, most recently on April 14 when it accomplished some of its biggest feats to date ...

Researchers are validating the aircraft's performance before propelling it to supersonic speeds.

The X-59 jet is NASA’s answer to that problem. Featuring a needlelike tip, it’s designed to travel at more than 1,000 miles per hour—about twice as fast as a commercial jet—while limiting the noise of ...