As residents of Chicago learned last week, sonic booms can cause damage such as broken windows, minor structural damage, and psychological unsettlement.

The X-59 is designed to break the speed of sound quietly. Because of its shape, building a traditional cockpit windshield into the craft wasn't feasible.

Although the Concorde was quickly limited to only being able to fly over the ocean due to its extreme amount of noise, NASA hopes that the X-59 and similar aircraft could fly over land if quiet ...

Are you ready to fly in one? A new prototype plane features a screen instead of a front-facing window in its cockpit. The technology is closer to the mainstream than it sounds.

The Spike S-512 Diplomat will be able to fly from New York to Paris in under four hours, using high-tech engineering to minimize its sonic boom.

The Invictus hypersonic space plane can fly from London to NYC in one hour, expected to reach Mach 5.0 when it hits the skies ...