From moon missions to Mars rovers, space exploration has become a regular part of the news and a shared goal for many countries. With ISRO’s recent successes and growing global efforts, more people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA captured the pressure waves sent out by the Perseus black hole and translated these signals into a range that can be heard by humans. If you’ve ever wanted to know what a black hole sounds like, ...

In 2003, during his maiden spaceflight, China’s first astronaut,Yang Liwei, encountered a strange and unsettling phenomenon: a mysterious knocking sound. As he navigated the vast emptiness of space, ...