When it comes to sharing information about distant space objects, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is the beautiful images captured by instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA has released a new festive sonification, this one showing the enormous star RS Puppis. Based on an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, this sonification gives an auditory way to experience ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While nobody can hear you scream in space—dang airless vacuum!—there are still ways to “hear” cosmic objects. Using “sonifications ...

When you see stunning images of space, they’re often visual representations of data captured by telescopes, with different colors for different elements or types of energy. Now scientists are ...

We’re used to seeing the output of telescopes as images, but what if we could translate that data into sound? A new “Sonification” project from NASA's Chandra X-ray Center has done just that, letting ...

Astronomy is such a visual profession, made relevant and inspiring by the luminescent images created from powerful telescopes like the Webb and Hubble — our eyes on the universe. But not everyone sees ...

Income inequality along New York City’s line 2 train is so drastic that you can literally hear it. An emerging data trend — or art form, depending on who you ask — called “data sonification” allows ...