We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system – places where there's a medium through which sound waves can be transmitted, such as an atmosphere or an ocean. But what about ...

A cosmic collection of sounds from space exploration is now available in the public domain. NASA has launched a sound library starting with over 60 samples of mission control, rockets firing, Sputnik ...

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 ...

Space is the ultimate silent movie because there’s literally nothing there to carry sound waves, making it the most perfectly quiet place in the entire universe. While Hollywood loves explosive space ...

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

NASA’s Deep Space Network has been receiving images from space for 50 years now, but the probes also send back sounds. As electromagnetic data is picked up and converted in to sound waves, the result ...