Sound—in the form of shock waves—helps sculpt the beautiful, delicate structures of some supernova remnants, such as those seen here in a Hubble Space Telescope image of the Veil Nebula. “In space no ...

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What if sound travelled through space? This video explores the science behind sound waves, their behavior in a vacuum, and ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...

It's commonly believed that there's no sound in space, but that's far from the case. For instance, sonifications from NASA have allowed us to hear the sounds of a black hole, and, in 2025, astronomers ...