The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype for a supersonic bomber that was never built, but the two test…
This NASA F-16XL-2 aircraft was used during 1995-96 for the Supersonic Laminar Flow Control project to demonstrate that airflow could…
Taking the leap well beyond supersonic flight, a hypersonic X-43 aircraft reached a record-breaking speed of Mach 9.6, or nearly…
This modified Northrop F-5E jet was used during 2003 for NASA’s Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration program, a successful effort to…
Originally designed as a supersonic interceptor for the Air Force, the YF-12A was a variant of Lockheed’s A-12 reconnaissance plane.…
With Mach 1 and Mach 2 behind them, NACA engineers sought to expand on their research to fully understand the…
This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission.…
The bulk of the Planck computations were performed on the Cray XE6 supercomputer, named for computer scientist Grace Hopper, at…
Each spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the Greenland ice sheet, sapphire-colored…
The Planck mission has imaged the oldest light in our universe, called the cosmic microwave background, with unprecedented precision. The…
