The loud, blaring sound that people on the ground can hear and sometimes feel when an aircraft or a meteor flies overhead at supersonic speeds is called a sonic boom, according to NASA.

Residents in a central Indiana town had questions when they heard a loud boom on Friday night.Emergency management officials in the area said the noise was likely a sonic boom caused by a meteor ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...

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