Built around NASA’s pioneering scramjet technology, the X-51 Waverider was designed to reach hypersonic speeds above Mach 5, ...

Hitting a target with a missile anywhere in the world in less than an hour – that’s the Pentagon’s goal with its ongoing development of hypersonic weapons. Moving from the experimental phase to ...

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

This aircraft could offer some impressive capabilities.

The NASA X-43 remains the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown and got close to Mach 10.

An Australian hypersonic scramjet technology demonstrator is expected to be launched from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway as early as Sept. 17. The Scramspace (Scramjet-based Access-to-Space Systems ...

China is fast-tracking potential space-travel technology designed to simulate speeds of Mach 30, a paradigm changing velocity more than five times the speed of the hypersonic threshold considered to ...