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 ...

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 ...

As the saying goes, "In space, no one can hear you scream." However, black holes are apparently an exception to the rule. On Sunday, NASA's Exoplanets Twitter account, which is dedicated to "looking ...

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 ...

The unfathomable vacuum that is outer space is quiet — to the tune of zero decibels. This is because particles vibrate when sound is present. In near-empty areas of space, there are no (or very few) ...

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, ...

'Sonification' is a process that translates data into sound, allowing us to 'listen' to space 'Sonification' is a process that translates data into sound, allowing us to 'listen' to space ...