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?

Jets were detected flying low over Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, causing a loud "sonic boom" to be heard over the city. The loud explosion occurred on Thursday, September 19 during a statement ...

The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on ...

NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft has fired up its engines for the first time during a series of engine tests launched last week. Tests were also run for the first time without an external power ...

Is there a way to take the boom out of the sonic boom? Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United States, and 2003, when the aircraft was retired, you may have been fortunate enough ...

After about a minute, you hear an enormous "BOOM," louder than any thunder or fireworks you've ever heard! What do you think made the noise happen?

SpaceX sent up 6,000 pounds of cargo on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Monday night with the rocket ...

An F-16 scrambled to intercept a nonresponsive plane on Sunday, and the fighter jet caused a sonic boom heard in the DC area. A sonic boom is a loud noise that people on the ground can hear when ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sonic Boom: A Dating Sonamy Sim?! Sonic Boom A Dating Sonamy Sim?! or SBDSS, is a bite-size visual novel fan-game made to attempt to tackle an idea I've ...

The David Berman/Purple Mountains cover is from Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom's holiday album 'A Peace of Us' that's out ...