Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet ...

Today, it takes 15 hours to fly from Sydney to Los Angeles. But what if that time could be shortened? What if crossing half the planet only takes one hour? How would we view the world? That’s the ...

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful ...

The United States has successfully completed testing of its new Dark Eagle Hypersonic Missile, a weapon designed to move ...

Hypersonic test company Stratolaunch plans to attempt back-to-back flights faster than Mach 5 of two rocket-powered Talon-A aircraft in January using its Roc carrier platform and newly modified Boeing ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, India, and the US reveal about the technology and its limits.

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 ...

A YKJ-1000 hypersonic missile conducts a test launch at an undisclosed location and at an undisclosed date. Photo: Screenshot from the video clip released on WeChat account of Bei ...

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has taken a major step in strengthening Australia's hypersonic research ...

China’s private aerospace firm Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology—known globally as Space Transportation—has unveiled a new hypersonic glide missile that could significantly alter the economics of ...