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 ...

Space isn't silent. Across the cosmos, strange and beautiful sounds echo from planets, moons, and even the remnants of stars.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound ...

In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience. Now a team containing some of those same ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Last month Walt Disney World celebrated the original Space Mountain‘s 50th anniversary. That’s a whole lot of years and a whole lot of people flying through the dark. But in five decades its doubtful ...

This photograph taken by an International Space Station astronaut shows a bright meteor from the Perseid meteor shower in Earth’s atmosphere. The brightest meteors are known as fireballs, or bolides ...