During each rocket liftoff and landing, several factors are in play affecting the intensity and duration of each sonic boom that may come with it.

Despite being based on the lackluster Sonic Boom video games, including the critical and commercial disaster that was Rise of Lyric, the Sonic Boom TV show managed to overcome that reputation to ...

Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When these ...

As rocket launches become more frequent along California’s Central Coast, Vandenberg Space Force Base is expanding its ECOBOOM research program to better understand and reduce sonic booms that impact ...

Californians were left fearing an earthquake had struck when they felt a sonic boom as NASA's Crew-11 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere aboard their SpaceX Dragon, which was returning early from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force (USAF) has apologised for a sonic boom that was heard as a loud explosion over Norfolk and Suffolk. People in and ...

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...

If you were in a need a reminder to turn your clocks back at 2 a.m. Sunday, it could be a boom you heard less than an hour before was able to assist. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the ...