NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network have launched a global campaign to track comet 3I/ATLAS and strengthen Earth’s asteroid defense.

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step toward much faster commercial travel,

NASA, alongside defense and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin, led X-59’s first test flight. X-59 took off from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ facility in Palmdale, California, before safely landing about 30 miles away near NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, according to a statement from Lockheed Martin.