As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound. So the waves ...

This video shows the shock wave of a MiG-29 Fulcrum flying past Mach 1.0 during an Edge of Space flight. The following was shot by famous aviation video producer Artur Sarkysian for MigFlug, a company ...

Seventy years ago, a young pilot from West Virginia risked his life to punch through an invisible barrier in the sky. The flight that made aerospace history wasn't supposed to go quite the way it went ...

A powerful volcano erupted in the south Pacific last Saturday, Jan. 15. The sound and pressure wave traveled quickly, and was even observed on weather instruments in Gaylord, Michigan. The Hunga Tonga ...