With the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the Institute’s multidisciplinary approach to music deepens. On a typical afternoon, MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building hums with life.

Relish in the pleasant thrumming of galaxies and stars in deep space whose data has been "sonified" into orchestral music. Sound cannot travel through space, thanks to the lack of air to act as a ...

The state-of-the-art data sonification system translates pixels of celestial objects into sounds, thereby composing melodious ...

We're used to getting word of what's going on in the Universe in the form of images. After all, that's what most telescopes currently in operation do, they look at things and snap pictures. Over the ...

In space, no one can hear you scream — here's why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

Space horror is a part of our popular culture. An episode of "Doctor Who" called "Listen," featuring Peter Capaldi in the titular role, saw the Doctor investigate a supposed creature that can never ...

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 ...