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 ...

“The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel,” NASA’s account dedicated to exoplanets tweeted. “A galaxy ...

With scientists measuring energy waves traveling through stars and setting them to music, the familiar tune takes on a whole new meaning. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NASA has known that the black hole at the center of the Perseus Galaxy creates sound since 2003. Scientists there have finally isolated the noise and shared it. It’s undeniably haunting but also a ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, heralding an entirely ...

Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends starlight as it travels to Earth. But stars also have an innate “twinkle” — caused by rippling waves of gas on their surfaces ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a frontier of fundamental physics. Yet in laboratories around the world, carefully ...

From our vantage point here on Earth, stars twinkle because our atmosphere warps light passing through it. When astronomers look through telescopes orbiting above Earth’s atmosphere, like Hubble and ...