The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

Black holes are a tricky bunch. While Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts they’re common, tracking down the first one was quite a challenge. Unlike stars, black holes themselves don’t emit any ...

The Bell X-1, a miracle of form and function. Photo-illustration by Cade Martin It was arguably the most important flight since Kitty Hawk, and the plane was a perfection of form and function. Thirty ...

When it comes to the latest and greatest in airplane tech, perhaps no other organization is better at developing these cutting-edge aircraft than the Armstrong Flight Research Center, HQ for NASA's ...

Cygnus X-1, located near Eta Cygni, is identified as a strong candidate for a black hole based on observational evidence including its high X-ray emission and the orbital characteristics of its ...

The thing about the sound barrier in the 1940s was that everyone in aviation knew that it was theoretically possible to travel faster than sound. High-powered bullets did it all the time. But whether ...