NASA’s Quiet Supersonic X-59 Flies Six Times in One Week — and Hits Mach 1.53
The needle-nosed experimental jet built to turn sonic booms into soft “thumps” set a new flight-tempo record in late September and reached its fastest speed yet.
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A Once-in-a-Century Event: NASA Finds the Biggest Fresh Crater Ever Seen on the Moon
Wider than two football fields end to end, the newly named McGetchin Crater is the largest recently formed impact crater identified anywhere in the solar system.
Move Over, Hexagon: Hubble Reveals a Giant 10-Sided Pattern Swirling Around Saturn’s South Pole
Saturn’s famous northern hexagon now has a southern cousin — an evolving decagon-shaped wave that has been quietly strengthening since 2023.