Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The aircraft has spent the last few days approximately 3.8 million miles from the sun ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its ...

The X-59 jet is Nasa and Lockheed Martin's joint offering, which the pair hope will retire the deafening sonic boom that is usually associated with supersonic aircraft. The X-59 is designed to hit ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

NASA just wrapped engine performance tests on its X-59 research aircraft, which the space agency hopes will prove a means of mitigating supersonic aircraft’s odious sonic booms. NASA and ...

Lockheed Martin has been building the X-59 for NASA, as part of a project to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft that can break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The current four which are visible to the naked eye are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and ...

If everything goes according to plan, NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program will produce its first results as soon as this year, as the demonstrator plane built for it, the X-59 ...