In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying. It’s the tagline from the famous 1979 science fiction movie “Alien.” It’s a scary thought, but is it true? The simple answer is ...

Since the 1950s, probes sent into space have been sending back data that reveal eerie sounds from the vastness of the galaxy. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

In space, nobody can hear you scream. NASA just dropped its hottest mixtape on Soundcloud — and it’s the agency’s hand-picked selection of creepy sounds from space, to celebrate this year’s All Hallow ...

What do you hear when you look into the night sky? If no one had ever seen a movie or television show about space, would we all imagine a different soundtrack in our minds? If there was a way to ...

Traditionally, the perils and pleasures of space travel have been accompanied by the bombast of sweeping strings. But on "Battlestar Galactica" space sounds very different. By Chuck Crisafulli, The ...

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 ...

*Spoiler alert: Some details of the Netflix series "Away" are mentioned in this article.* For the brand-new Mars-bound series "Away," sound designers got creative to bring the "sounds of space" to ...

Finally, someone can hear you scream in space. Sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space, but a pair of physicists in Finland have found a sneaky way to transmit sound across the airless ...

Space is mostly quiet. Data collected by telescopes is most often turned into silent charts, plots, and images. A “sonification” project led by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s Universe of ...