During its mission, Stardust captured an impact traveling at a velocity nearly 19 times the speed of sound—far faster than ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has shattered the sound barrier without the disruptive sonic boom ...

Finally, someone can hear you scream in space. Sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space, but a pair of physicists in Finland have found a sneaky way to transmit sound across the airless ...

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 ...

I just moved into a new apartment and recently noticed that the walls are incredibly thin. I mean, I think the walls may actually be hollow. So, an issue I'm having is that sound travels VERY easily.

So I recently moved into a much larger house with my brother and we are finding that the acoustics are not very good for cohabitation. The ceiling are very high and there is a lot of open space. Sound ...

Summer is the season of sound in Chicago: from fireworks to car stereos, the jingle of paleta carts to outdoor concerts. But hearing a concert from over four miles away? That’s exactly what happened ...