Villanova astrophysicist Becka Phillipson wondered what a black hole might sound like. She found an answer by translating ...

Every time NASA or the European Space Agency releases an audio clip from deep space, millions of listeners assume they are hearing actual sound captured by a microphone floating in the void. They are ...

How far can sound travel through space, since it’s so empty? Is there an echo in space? – Jasmine, age 14, Everson, Washington In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying.

Space is silent, or so we’re told. In the vast vacuum between stars and planets, sound waves can’t travel as they do on Earth. But what if that silence is just an illusion? What if the cosmos is ...

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 ...

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 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 ...