There have been rockets launching from Vandenberg for decades, so why are the Falcon 9 launches of such concern? "Because of the Starlink satellites, the orbital mechanics for where they're trying to ...

Trajectories, wind shear, temperature gradients, topography, and weather can affect how a sonic boom spreads. Trajectories, ...

A loud boom, followed by a rattling, triggered an earthquake scare in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Panicked people flocked ...

Rocket launches are loud, and big rockets are louder. Launches used to be occasional spectacles, and not many people minded the noise.

In an ambitious effort to balance space exploration with environmental and community concerns, Vandenberg Space Force Base ...

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 ...

A spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere Saturday, triggering a sonic boom that was heard in parts of LA County. The SpaceX ...

Flying from the UK to the US may soon get easier as a groundbreaking new aircraft could see the journey time cut done to as ...

Boom Supersonic has developed an aircraft designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, without an audible sonic boom ...

While Boom Supersonic boasted about there being no audible sonic boom on the ground, its airliner still isn't allowed to ...

Spike Aerospace, an Atlanta-based company, has relaunched development of the Spike S-512 Diplomat—a quiet supersonic business ...