Scott Simon reaches into the mailbag to read listeners' letters. Topics include criticism for a recent "fight club" piece and reaction to the sounds of Saturn. Time now for your letters. (Soundbite of ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Think space is silent? Discover the haunting sounds of Saturn, captured by Cassini’s radio and plasma wave instrument. These eerie waves reveal an atmospheric symphony from Saturn and its moons, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the ...

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet ...

Console startup sounds are supposed to be iconic. Memorable. Maybe even comforting. But let’s be honest—some of them were straight-up annoying. Whether it was the audio equivalent of a jump scare or a ...

Perseverance rover was exploring the winds on a Martian crater when this sound got recorded in its SuperCam microphone.

Just as the static on an AM radio grows louder with the approach of a summer lightning storm, strong radio emissions accompany bright auroral spots — similar to Earth’s northern lights — on the planet ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

The disappearing “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon Titan have intrigued scientists since NASA’s Cassini mission spotted them during flybys a decade ago. Now, researchers believe they have ...