Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of Washington, D.C., and parts of Virginia were startled on Sunday afternoon by an explosive noise that reverberated ...

Weather looks much better for SpaceX’s third try to get a resupply mission to the International Space Station off the ground ...

Eighty South Texas residents have taken SpaceX to federal court, accusing the company of damaging their homes and trespassing after repeated sonic booms and blast events tied to rocket testing.

Poor weather conditions forced a scrub of a Tuesday night launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to ...

Unexpected supersonic flight: A USAF F-15E unintentionally exceeded the speed of sound during training, creating a sonic boom ...

Today, many military aircraft can break the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight. Certain commercial models can as well, including the Concorde, which is famous for its record-breaking flights. As ...

UPDATE (12:11 p.m.) - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday. The rocket lifted off at 11:56 a.m. As its first-stage booster returned to Earth, landing back at ...

Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound have taken another step closer to reality. Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom ...

The simplest definition is a sonic boom happens when rockets and other aerospace vehicles fly faster than the speed of sound, or 767 mph. But digging deeper, according to NASA, when an aircraft ...