Sound cannot travel through a vacuum (like outer space) because it needs particles of a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to vibrate and carry the sound waves; without these particles, there's nothing to transmit the vibrations, as demonstrated by experiments with bells in a vacuum jar.
Sound cannot travel through ______?
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