In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew the X-1, an experimental rocket plane, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California and broke the sound barrier for the first time. To pull it off, he had to fly his plane at ...

April 1 (UPI) --Data from NASA's Perseverance Rover has given scientists their first clear picture of how sound travels on Mars' surface. The Red Planet's thin, cold atmosphere, made of mostly carbon ...

Scientists are picking up on some strange sounds in the second layer of our atmosphere that they haven't heard anywhere else. The stratosphere is a relatively calm layer of Earth's atmosphere, rarely ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sound is a constant presence for most organisms on Earth, but throughout the rest of the solar ...