BOOM! What was the earth-shaking, jolt-you-awake, set-off-the-car-alarm sound? Oh right, a rocket launch. But why are some rocket launches accompanied by sonic booms and others aren’t? Either way, ...

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The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, serves military space launch missions as well as launches for NASA and commercial entities like SpaceX. But how do all those launches ...

Physicists who record rocket launches and landings are learning important facts about the acoustics of spaceflight. A group of scientists who study the acoustics of rockets set up equipment all around ...

Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a ...