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 ...

image: Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion ...

Larger than the Milky Way, this wave managed to form a mysterious hydrogen "recycling plant" in one of space's scariest regions. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate ...