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 ...

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 ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying. It’s the tagline from the famous 1979 science fiction movie “Alien.” It’s a scary thought, but is it true? The simple answer is ...

We're used to getting word of what's going on in the Universe in the form of images. After all, that's what most telescopes currently in operation do, they look at things and snap pictures. Over the ...

Space isn't silent. Across the cosmos, strange and beautiful sounds echo from planets, moons, and even the remnants of stars.

This post was updated May 11 at 11:55 p.m. UCLA researchers collaborated with NASA and the Space Science Institute to develop a web app that translates data from space into audible sound. The app, ...

For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played ...

Last month Walt Disney World celebrated the original Space Mountain‘s 50th anniversary. That’s a whole lot of years and a whole lot of people flying through the dark. But in five decades its doubtful ...