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 ...

Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

A NASA project called sonifications gives a new way to experience beautiful images of space: via sound. Three new sonifications have translated visual information in images taken by NASA telescopes ...

Up, up in the air ... scientific solar-powered balloons have recorded some strange sounds in the stratosphere researchers cannot identify. Daniel Bowman and other researchers at Sandia National ...

A mysterious hum resonating from deep space has captured the attention of scientists and the public alike. Detected by the Voyager spacecraft, this eerie sound has sparked questions and intrigue about ...

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 ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

The process of data sonification can help scientists better identify patterns in complex data and create beautiful music for the public If you want to know what interstellar space is like, it can be a ...

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