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 ...

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, ...

(via Astrum) The universe is far from silent. An eerie symphony echoes through the cosmos, lurking in the depths of space. Prepare for a spine-chilling journey through the haunting sounds of black ...

You can’t hear sound in space. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t make sound from space. Lefse Records recently did just that, inviting 14 artists to make songs using “sounds” from space. The first ...

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 ...

Space is the ultimate silent movie because there’s literally nothing there to carry sound waves, making it the most perfectly quiet place in the entire universe. While Hollywood loves explosive space ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Doug Harbin’s written lots of compelling music and he’s experimented with unusual sounds, including sounds from space. So when a scientist friend suggested he listen in on the noises ...

NASA’s Deep Space Network has been receiving images from space for 50 years now, but the probes also send back sounds. As electromagnetic data is picked up and converted in to sound waves, the result ...