NORFOLK — People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound that has a rich history in American aviation and possibly a muted future: A sonic boom. The boom was ...

Washington-area residents were startled Sunday afternoon when a D.C. Air National Guard F-16 fighter jet went supersonic in pursuit of an unresponsive Cessna business plane, letting loose a sonic boom ...

This is what a split in the polar vortex looks like! Highlighted by the red boxes, you can see two distinct circulation centers, versus strictly one. This allows for cold air to flood southward into ...

PARIS (AP) — A tennis player at the French Open was visibly startled by a sonic boom Wednesday just as he was about to serve a ball. Before the cause of the loud bang was known, there was a brief ...

Sound travels fast, and so did speculation about what caused the house-rattling boom some residents in Hampton Roads heard Monday morning. An earthquake, alien aircraft — the ideas ran amuck on social ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — People living in and ...