If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Humans have long imagined life on the Red Planet, and now, we have an idea at least of what ...

Audio gathered by the mission may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth. A new interactive online experience lets you sample the difference. When the Mars Perseverance ...

Planets orbiting two suns are rare. Scientists now understand why. Subtle gravitational forces, amplified by Einstein's relativity, destabilize planetary orbits over eons. This leads to planets being ...

Have you ever wondered what the Red Planet sounds like? Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover's audio recordings of Mars, scientists reduced a year worth of Mars sounds into a five-hour playlist that ...

Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Waves crash. Tree branches vibrate. Mosquitoes hum. These phenomena take place every day but not everyone necessarily hears them.

We don’t have an answer yet to David Bowie’s rhetorical question about whether there’s life on Mars, but we do already know what the planet sounds like. While the James Webb Space Telescope hogs the ...

NASA has converted years of satellite data on Earth's magnetosphere into eerie sound clips that can be used by citizen scientists to help make new discoveries. When you purchase through links on our ...