The B-58 Hustler was well named: it could hit Mach 2, the first bomber to go so fast. So why did the Air Force dump it ...

The Zircon’s speed is believed to be between Mach 8 and Mach 9, making it one of the fastest missiles ever made.

On a hazy spring morning in northern China, a few grainy images and seconds of blurry video lit a firestorm among global defense analysts, military watchers, and aviation enthusiasts. A mysterious ...

In a bold move to revive supersonic travel, Russia once proposed converting its TU-160 bombers into luxury jets—equipped for ...

Boom Technology, the Colorado company working on building the next generation of supersonic jets, has chosen to develop and ...

The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj. Phil “Hands” Handley.

Aerospace engineering has always had a preoccupation with speed. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati are pushing ...

Fourth-year undergraduate students aim to be the first to obtain reentry data with affordable, small spacecraft called HEDGE.