Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...

You can't eliminate distance, but in near-space, where there's little air resistance, you can move pretty dang fast. In laymen's terms, that's the founding principle of a company that's developing a ...

Sixty years after the SR-71 Blackbird first stunned the world, no air-breathing aircraft has surpassed its speed and altitude. In this episode, we trace the rise of Hermeus, a fast-moving startup out ...

The X-15 was a rocket-powered research aircraft that pushed human flight to the edge of space and deep into the hypersonic ...

Stratolaunch built and operates the world’s largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air-launch platform for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Their primary focus is ...

Japan is positioning its hypersonic electromagnetic railgun development as a strategic centerpiece, aiming to deter Chinese ...

The Air Force successfully fired an air-to-ground hypersonic missile that reached speeds more than five times the speed of sound in a test off the southern California coast, officials said Monday. The ...

Tehran — Iran has developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defense systems, General Amirali Hajizadeh, the commander of its Revolutionary Guards aerospace unit, claimed on Thursday.