The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...

Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes and listened, what would these celestial objects sound like? Would we hear a faint whoosh? Or ...

Soaring to the depths of our universe, gallant spacecraft roam the cosmos, snapping images of celestial wonders. Some spacecraft have instruments capable of capturing radio emissions. When scientists ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound ...

A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four years has been recording audio of Mars. In this alien world 156 million miles away in space, even the everyday whispers of wind and ...

My phrase of the week is “the sonification of data,” or maybe I just like the key word itself, sonification. I heard a radio segment this week on NPR’s Science Friday program during which the question ...

In 2003, Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut to travel to space, reported hearing a strange, unexplained knocking sound while orbiting Earth aboard China’s Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. The event was ...

T he idea of being exposed to the vacuum of space sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film, but the reality is far ...