The last time we took a break from any scientific considerations and blatantly entertained our minds with something equally crazy and inventive, there was just one easy option. Of course, it was ...

Although few people ever get the chance to travel at the speed of sound, it is an alluring flight goal and an impressive technological feat. Though average people have flown at high speeds on ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer ...

With speeds seven times the speed of sound, temperatures hotter than the sun and chemical reactions that rip apart air molecules, hypersonic flight sounds terrifying. But a professor and some students ...