At first glance, the Dassault Falcon 20 looked like an ordinary business jet. But in the late 1980s, one aircraft underwent an extraordinary transformation. Working with the U.S. Coast Guard, ...

NASA has announced that it has completed the first full burn test for its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. Conducted on December 12 at NASA's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, this ...

A humongous jet of material ejected from the center of a distant galaxy looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, and scientists say it may have formed in a similar way.

Come early next year American space agency NASA will fly, for the first time, an experimental aircraft that could one day bring back civilian supersonic aircraft, and might even allow them to fly at ...

Key Point: The trillion-dollar stealth fight doesn’t seem to have its act together. This is just the latest issue. After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the Lockheed F-35 ...

When a jet needs an extra kick to launch from an aircraft carrier, punch past Mach 1, or evade enemy weapons, it uses its afterburner. Producing a big jolt of thrust—and dramatic flame—the afterburner ...

Modern 5th-generation fighter jets are impressive machines with numerous capabilities that set them apart from prior-generation aircraft. One fighter that tends to get a lot of attention is the F-35 ...

Destinus, a Switzerland-based startup developing a zero-carbon, high-speed transport aircraft, has flown a subscale prototype configured with a hydrogen-fueled afterburner. The company is targeting a ...