THE wheels are off in the battle to achieve supersonic air travel as NASA’s “Son of Concorde” passes another major milestone.

An out-of-this-world balloon has taken off from Florida. Space Perspective, a spaceflight tourism company, completed the second unmanned test flight of their Spaceship Neptune aircraft on Sunday, ...

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Virgin Galactic has postponed its next test flight due to safety concerns regarding the "strength margins" of materials used in the rocket plane. The move follows a regulatory investigation into the ...

Scroll down to find out more about the Talon-A2 drone A HYPERSONIC plane that can travel around the entire Earth in less than seven hours has made two successful test flights. Talon-A2 reached an ...

Venus Aerospace says it has successfully tested a rocket engine that could make hypersonic jet travel a reality. It is hoped the engine could enable planes to travel four to six times the speed of ...

A test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket has failed for the third time in a row. It began spinning out of control about 30 minutes after its launch because of fuel leaks - meaning it broke up on ...