Reaching approximately Mach 9.6 (one Mach equals the speed of sound, and the X-43 went over that 9.6 times), or 7,365 mph, NASA’s scramjet planes made flights for 10 seconds, followed by 10 ...

The Boeing X-43 unmanned hypersonic aircraft ... This test aircraft, with several planned scale variants, was part of NASA's Hyper-X program, which was developing aircraft with a "scramjet" engine.

Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, then ready the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for future upgrades," NASA officials wrote in a Jan. 15 blog post. Related ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...

This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most massive ...

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representatives for NASA thanked the pair for their work in repairing the telescope, which is used to investigate very dense objects called neutron stars by observing X-rays, and which has ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory of DRDO, recently developed these technologies and demonstrated a cutting-edge Active Cooled Scramjet Combustor ...

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.

Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday successfully conducted a ground test of scramjet ...

NASA has affirmed a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so “as soon as practical,” the ...