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When NASA hired the Kronos Quartet to work outer-space recordings into a piece of music, the University of Iowa physicist Don Gurnett found a composer at his door. “I went to meet Dr. Gurnett in Iowa ...

Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes and listened, what would these celestial objects sound like? Would we hear a faint whoosh? Or ...

From the mysteries of our own planet to the vast reaches of the cosmos, music has long captured humanity’s fascination with ...

NASA has previously shared some fascinating sonifications, which take images of space and turn them into auditory experiences — both to allow people who are visually impaired to enjoy the wonders of ...

In space, perhaps nobody can hear your scream—but that doesn’t mean that stellar travel is a silent pursuit. Now, NASA has started compiling mountains of historic space-related audio clips for us all ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope were turned into sound in an eerie new video. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Space is where billionaires dream. Jeff Bezos thinks that we will soon move heavy industry and most humans off-planet onto massive revolving space stations, allowing the Earth to return to a pristine ...

For centuries, the primary way that astronomers studied outer space was through sight. But just ten years ago, scientists successfully established a way to 'listen' to our cosmos – detecting ...