A new NASA project has turned the beauty of the universe into sound, allowing the visually impaired to experience the wonders of space. NASA, through a process called sonification, translated data ...

In the second half of the 20th century, composers such as John Williams, John Barry, Alexander Courage, Michael Giacchino and Hans Zimmer have brought outer space to life in their scores. Recently, ...

For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played ...

We often think of astronomy as a visual science with beautiful images of the universe. However, astronomers use a wide range of analysis tools beyond images to understand nature at a deeper level.

Sonification is no gimmick. It’s a potentially high value observational tool. It’s been around for a while now, and the idea is growing a fan base and expanding its range. The question is now how to ...

Scientists study it in part to improve their predictions about how it will behave. “In this sonification, we can actually hear in the data when the temperature goes up, or when the density increases,” ...