“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday ... test flight out of California’s Mojave ...

«This image makes the invisible visible — the first U.S. civilian supersonic jet to break the sound barrier», says Blake Scholl ... using NASA’s previous calculations, and then the space agency ...

The XB-1 broke the sound barrier three times during its 13th and final test flight, which lifted off Monday from the Mojave Air & Space Port in southeastern California at about 1:50 p.m. EST (1850 ...

The supersonic engine testing facility Boom Supersonic is opening at the Colorado Air and Space Port in Watkins, east of ...

Free-fall through the sound barrier. In a computer animation ... This is the last of six clips from ‘The Science of Space Dive’ and this clip could be used in conjunction with the others.

When traveling near the speed of sound, the plane came up against a "sound barrier"—as though the velocity of sound represented a wall through which a plane could not move. With technological ...

We’ve demonstrated we can do it without a sonic boom.” Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier for its first time ever in late January. During that highly ...