As residents of Chicago learned last week, sonic booms can cause damage such as broken windows, minor structural damage, and psychological unsettlement. Last week, the US Air Force’s Thunderbirds ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – Rocket launches are amazing spectacles, but close-up viewers know to bring a set of earplugs or earmuffs to protect their hearing. However, the boom of a launch isn’t ...

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 ...

Imagine leaving work in L.A. or San Francisco a little early on a Friday afternoon and winding up with a drink on the beach in Maui before cocktail hour is over. Imagine Seattle to Tokyo in four hours ...

Residents of Washington, D.C., and parts of Virginia were startled on Sunday afternoon by an explosive noise that reverberated overhead, which officials later confirmed was a sonic boom produced as ...

These blasts—which are increasingly common along the Space Coast in central Florida—can be heard whenever an object breaks the sound barrier. Here’s why. A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a ...

SMITH ISLAND, M.d. - The Naval Air Station Patuxent River is warning Smith Island area residents of a inshore weapons separation testing event tomorrow, Jan 20. Officials say the test flight has the ...

As seen from Huntington Beach, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with 22 Starlink satellites launches in March. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The house jolts and rumbles, and then there's the ...