North American Aviation’s X-15 rocket plane reached 4,520 mph and climbed to 354,200 feet during a program that ran from 1959 ...

The U.S. military’s push to field a weapon capable of striking targets more than 1,700 miles away at speeds exceeding Mach 5 has reached a critical inflection point. The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, ...

All systems operated nominally during both ascent and descent through the atmosphere in the test.

Although China launching a hypersonic missile towards America isn't that simple, it may still surprise you just how fast these weapons could reach the West.

Labour has fast-tracked a £12m deal to build hypersonic missiles to modernise its arsenal of weapons. The deal was awarded to ...

Chinese researchers have revealed progress on a weapon concept that could compress hypersonic performance ...

Chinese scientists and engineers are developing an ultra‑small hypersonic glide missile that can be fired from a standard ...

Hypersonic weapons are reshaping modern military strategy by drastically reducing response times and challenging existing defence systems. Travelling at more than five times the speed of sound, ...

Hypersonica, an Anglo-German defence start-up developing what it describes as a sovereign European hypersonic strike capability, has completed its first successful hypersonic test flight in Norway.

Queensland-based Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced the successful completion of vibration testing on its ...

Barcelona – Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel. There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and ...

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is gearing up for an upcoming launch that underscores its growing role in U.S. defense and ...