The world's first hydrogen-fueled hypersonic jet may be able to reach a simply astounding speed of 12 times the speed of ...

Hypersonic flight has long been a military obsession, but the idea of a sitting United States president crossing oceans at more than five times the speed of sound would push that technology into the ...

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence behaves at extreme speeds, a critical hurdle for designing these aircraft. Their ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Boeing's Phantom Works a $92.4-million contract to design, develop and test-fly a Mach 6, hypersonic demonstrator missile. Eight powered test ...

Could a hypersonic vehicle take flight this weekend in the deserts of Southeastern California? It appears Stratolaunch, an aerospace company based in Mojave about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is ...

The length of a Premier League football pitch? 105 meters. The length of Trafalgar Square in London? 140 metres. The Stratolaunch Roc – the world’s largest operating plane – is much longer, at 117 ...