This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system—places where there's a medium through which ...

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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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If the vacuum of space didn’t prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? That’s the question posed by a delightful new piece from Astronomy Magazine — a concept that invokes the ...

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 ...

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That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

Sure, there's some truth to the tagline of the famous science fiction-meets-horror flick "Alien." Thanks to a vacuum, "In space, no one can hear you scream."But the vast universe is hardly quiet. It's ...