Maverick, Tom Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell pushes the experimental Darkstar beyond Mach 10. But how fast actually is ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

Army Futures Command Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Michael C. McCurry, left, and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady, right, toured Notre Dame's Turbomachinery Laboratory on ...

Venus Aerospace has not publicly released detailed specific impulse (ISP) data for their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) or the VDR2 (a rocket-based combined cycle engine integrating RDRE ...

Russia's Oreshnik missile, with a speed of Mach 10, a range of 5,500 km, and the ability to carry multiple nuclear warheads, ...

An experimental jet engine has been successfully tested at speeds of up to 6,835 miles per hour, or 10 times the speed of sound, during trials in Australia's outback, defense scientists said on Friday ...

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence behaves at extreme speeds, a critical hurdle for designing these aircraft. Their ...