When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Steve Freeman NASA is planning to fly its F-15B jets through supersonic shock waves ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

The reason the Concorde was unprofitable was, in fact, a side effect of its speed. When the plane sped up past the speed of sound—about 760 mph—it created shock waves in the air that would hit the ...

A team of researchers led by a group from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has demonstrated a new technique to generate magnetic waves in antiferromagnets that propagate through the material ...

As the Moon moves around the Earth on its periodic orbit, its gravitational influence grabs hold of water in the oceans and drags it around. The size of the tides is determined by the amount of ...

A render of the X-59 quiet supersonic airplane flying above the desert. - Lockheed Martin For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that ...

NASA's X-59 QueSST aircraft is set to revolutionize supersonic travel by replacing loud sonic booms with a quiet thump.

A popping champagne cork produces freezing jets of carbon dioxide and, unexpectedly, shock waves like the ones released by fighter jets, according to a new study published in Science Advances. The ...