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 ...

The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

A spectacular image was captured during a historic test flight. It shows the supersonic XB-1 aircraft from Boom Supersonic racing past the Sun, revealing shock waves invisible to the naked eye. This ...

In 2023, China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ system became the first large-scale electromagnetic launcher to break ...

Scientists used a high-speed camera to record the moment the cork pops. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Popping open a bottle of ...

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 ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic have teamed to create a technique that visualizes the shock waves generated out of the second supersonic test flight of its XB-1 prototype. The groups released the images ...

Extremely interesting footage shows the bow shock wave around an F-104 Starfighter flying supersonic. As already explained in a previous article, Piercarlo “Capone” Ciacchi is the Director of Flight ...