Sound—in the form of shock waves—helps sculpt the beautiful, delicate structures of some supernova remnants, such as those seen here in a Hubble Space Telescope image of the Veil Nebula. “In space no ...

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 ...

321 ignition, *** crew delayed or stuck on the space station is uncommon, delayed. Certainly, you know, I mean, stranded. Sounds like you're in *** life boat in the middle of the Pacific, you know, ...

Whether you remember it from high school physics, or from your favorite Signorney Weaver sci-fi movie, we all know that sound doesn't travel in space. This is due to it being a vacuum -- a vast ...

Space is mostly quiet. Data collected by telescopes is most often turned into silent charts, plots, and images. A “sonification” project led by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s Universe of ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...