There have been rockets launching from Vandenberg for decades, so why are the Falcon 9 launches of such concern? "Because of ...

Physicists who record rocket launches and landings are learning important facts about the acoustics of spaceflight.

A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media ...

but new developments in science in technology could change that very soon. The biggest issues that the Concorde faced in its heyday were complaints about its deafening sonic boom and its high fuel ...

Southern California residents were alarmed Saturday evening when a sonic boom was heard throughout the area after a SpaceX ...

Most of Southern California felt the shaking from a brief sonic boom created by SpaceX aircraft Dragon returning to Earth on ...

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While the plane’s engines were still audible on the ground, surpassing the Mach cutoff ensured no one heard a disruptive sonic boom. According to the company’s February 10th announcement ...

A SpaceX vehicle that has spent about a month docked at the International Space Station made a dramatic return Saturday night ...

and the company did it with no audible sonic booms on the ground. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 (pictured here in an earlier flight) flew Mach 1.122 in Boomless Cruise ... no one on the ground could ...