NASA is planning to fly its F-15B jets through supersonic shock waves in order to help test its revolutionary X-59 jet. When aircraft break the sound barrier, they produce shock waves that ...

Using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists extracted these sound waves and transposed them up by 57 and 58 octaves, making them perceptible to humans. What emerges is a ...

EMI tests included checking for interference between X-59 and the radar-equipped F-15D chase aircraft. Credit: NASA EDWARDS AFB, California—NASA and Lockheed Martin have completed key engine and ...

To capture this rare event, two of NASA’s WB-57 jet planes, equipped with special instruments, will follow each other at 740 kilometres per hour, about a quarter of the speed of the moon’s ...