Space Stories

NASA Officially Greenlights $3.35 Billion Mission To Saturn's Moon Titan 66
Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth 54
Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion 77
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 13
NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery 258
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
NASA Confirms That Debris From ISS Crashed Into Florida Home 57
AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes 315
Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
ESA Prepares To Create Solar Eclipses To Study the Sun 19
China Moving At 'Breathtaking Speed' In Final Frontier, Space Force Says 196
Sierra Space, Valued At $5.3 Billion, Eyes IPO To 'Accelerate the New Space Economy' 26
ULA Launches Final Delta Rocket After 64 Years 22
VCs Invest $90M in Varda Space Industries' Microgravity Drug Manufacturing 20
CNN Investigates 'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' 59
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months 58
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
New 3D Cosmic Map Raises Questions Over Future of Universe, Scientists Say 63
Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake? 90
Scientists Complete Construction of the Biggest Digital Camera Ever 29
Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida 135
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
Henrietta Leavitt, Cosmology Pioneer, Receives Belated Obituary 14
Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is Twice As Old As We Thought 243
Europe Turns To the Falcon 9 To Launch Its Navigation Satellites 93
What's Next for SpaceX's Starship? 104
Aging Voyager 1 Sends Back Response After 'Poke' Signal From Earth 30
Scientists Reveal Never-Before-Seen Map of the Milky Way's Central Engine 11
Giant Volcano Discovered On Mars 23
Southern Oregon Now Boasts World's Largest Dark Sky Sanctuary 20
SpaceX Celebrates Third Launch of Starship Rocket Despite Loss of Contact 70
FAA Grants License For SpaceX's Third Starship Launch 62
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
Conflicting Values For Hubble Constant Not Due To Measurement Error, Study Finds 64
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Was Avi Loeb Led to His 'Alien Debris' Meteor by the Sound of a Truck? 53
Astronomers Detect 'Waterworld With a Boiling Ocean' in Deep Space 25
Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark 80
China To Debut Large Reusable Rockets In 2025 and 2026 43
Blue Origin Targets 2025 For Cargo Lander's Inaugural Moon Trip, With Humans To Follow 19
Setback For Hopes of Life As NASA Says Less Oxygen On Jupiter Moon Than Thought 25
NASA Shutters $2B Satellite Refueling Project, Blames Contractor For Delays. 30
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
'Mathematically Perfect' Star System Being Investigated For Potential Alien Tech 71
5,000-Pound Satellite Successfully 'Deorbited' Wednesday 20
Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object 43
To Combat Space Pollution, Japan Plans Launch of World's First Wooden Satellite 59
Scientists Discover Water On Surface of an Asteroid 24
India To Launch Android Into Space To Test Crewed Launch Capability 20
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
Harvard Astronomy Professor Thinks He Has New Evidence of Alien Spacecraft 95
Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time In Space 41
Space-based Research May Lead To Cancer 'Kill Switch' 22
Is the US Space Force Researching Space-Based Solar Power? 38
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
Space Shuttle Endeavor's Final 'Flight': Hoisted By Crane Tonight Into Future Site of a Museum 30
Hubble Spots Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet's Atmosphere 28
Astronomers Discover Giant Ancient Stars in Milky Way 25
Nearby Galaxy's Giant Black Hole Is Real, 'Shadow' Image Confirms 30
Ultra-Large Structure Discovered In Distant Space Challenges Cosmological Principle 60
James Webb Telescope Detects Earliest Known Black Hole 7
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA 114
Japan Startup Eyes Fusion Laser To Shoot Down Space Junk From Ground 48
Private US Moon Lander Now Headed For Earth, Might Burn Up In Atmosphere 41
New Paper on 'MOND' Argues That Gravity Changes At Very Low Accelerations 81
NASA Selects Bold Proposal To 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri With Tiny Probes 113
Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst 27
Moon Lander Problem Threatens Mission After Vulcan Rocket Makes Successful Debut 51
Neptune Is Much Less Blue Than Depictions 38
SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites 13
New Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape 16
India To Study Black Holes With First Satellite Launch After US 27
Navajo Nation President Asks NASA to Delay Moon Launch Over Possible Human Remains 203
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75
'Behold - the Best Space Images of 2023' 5
Is It Possible to Beam Solar Power From Outer Space? 130
SpaceX Wows With a Double Header of Final 2023 Rocket Launches 43
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won't Be the Last 60
US Commits To Landing an International Astronaut On the Moon 49
Blue Origin's Suborbital Rocket Flies For First Time In 15 Months 31
SETI Scientists Report Discovery of More Fast Radio Bursts 19
Orbit Fab Wants to Create 'Gas Stations' in Space for Satellites 53
'Life May Have Everything It Needs to Exist on Saturn's Moon Enceladus' 27
Asteroid Pieces Brought to Earth May Offer a Clue to Life's Origin 26
Jeff Bezos Says Blue Origin Needs To Be 'Much Faster' 127
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can't Phone Home 34
Are Tiny Black Holes Hiding Within Giant Stars? 43
Scientists Discover Nuclear Fission Amongst the Stars 31
Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear In Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence 33
SpaceX Will Help US Space Force Launch Its Secretive X-37B Space Plane 36
The Extremely Large Telescope Will Transform Astronomy 35
'Wobbly Spacetime' May Help Resolve Contradictory Physics Theories 90
India Reveals That It Has Returned Lunar Spacecraft To Earth Orbit 18
Amazon Taps SpaceX For Kuiper Launch 12
A Strong Solar Storm Is Inbound With a Full Halo CME 46
A Star With Six Planets That Orbit Perfectly in Sync 30
A NASA Spacecraft Could Carry Your Name to Jupiter in 2024 51
The Most Powerful Cosmic Ray Since the Oh-My-God Particle Puzzles Scientists 63
NASA Chooses Blue Origin's Rocket To Launch Smallsat Mission To Mars 71
Deep Space Astronauts May Be Prone To Erectile Dysfunction, Study Finds 85
Earth Receives Laser-Beamed Message From 10 Million Miles Away 31
SpaceX's Starship Reaches Outer Space Before Intentional Detonation 125
FAA Clears SpaceX To Launch Second Starship Flight 19
Planet Where It Rains Sand Revealed By Nasa Telescope 22
Airbus Introduces 'Detumbler' Device To Address Satellite Tumbling In Low Earth Orbit 23
A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022 53
Japan To Create $6.6 Billion Fund To Develop Outer Space Industry 22
Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8, Dies At 95 21
SpaceX Will Launch the Space Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane On Falcon Heavy 31
Euclid Telescope: First Images Revealed From 'Dark Universe' Mission 10
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow 155
Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars 20
A SpaceX 'Falcon 9' Booster Rocket Has Launched 18 Times Successfully, a New Record 86
NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid 18
NASA Open To Extending ISS Beyond 2030 21
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead At 87 28
New Agreement Enables US Launches From Australian Spaceports 24
Breakthrough Kidney Stone Procedure Makes It Possible For Astronauts To Travel To Mars 70
Mars Has a Surprise Layer of Molten Rock Inside 35
Can Humans Have Babies In Space? SpaceBorn United Wants To Find Out 105
JWST's Disconnect With Cosmology Models Linked to 'Bursty Star Formations' 18
Next Year, SpaceX Aims To Average One Launch Every 2.5 Days 27
A Simple Streetlight Hack Could Protect Astronomy From Urban Light Pollution 160
India Plans To Land Astronauts On the Moon In 2040 86
Blue Origin's New Spacecraft Can Build Projects In Space 38
Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid? 44
NASA Unveils First Glimpse of Space Rock Collected From Asteroid 17
US Space Force Pauses Generative AI Use Based on Security Concerns 20
How Edwin Hubble Expanded the Universe 100 Years Ago 26
Scientists Discover the Highest Energy Gamma-Rays Ever From a Pulsar 12
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky 41
James Webb Space Telescope's First Spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 Planet 28
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs 25
NASA Opens OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid-Sample Canister 21
First Evidence of Spinning Black Hole Detected by Scientists 20
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin To Replace CEO Bob Smith With Amazon Exec Dave Limp 27
After Seven Years, Sample Collected From Asteroid Finally Returns to Earth 34
NASA's Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa 26
SpaceX Rocket Launches Starlink Satellites On Record-Breaking 17th Flight 46
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth 66
The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term For It: 'Noctalgia' 122
Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System 86
Firefly Aerospace Sets Launch Speed Record For US Space Force 28
Space Industry Is Growing Faster Than Its Workforce, Analysts Say 69
CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has To Be Made Like Microchips 24
Asteroid Behaving Unexpectedly After NASA's Deliberate DART Crash 36
Starship Is Stacked and Ready To Make Its Second Launch Attempt 89
How a Billion-Dollar Satellite Risks Upending the Space Insurance Industry 86
India Seeks To Top Its Moon Landing with Spacecraft To Study Sun 18
Hackers Shut Down 2 of the World's Most Advanced Telescopes 36
NASA To Demonstrate Laser Communications From Space Station 40
Watch SpaceX Deliver Four Astronauts to the International Space Station 41
Perseverance Mars Rover Spies Big Sunspot Rotating Toward Earth 15
SpaceX Test-Fires Booster For Second Starship Launch 65
Target of European Space Debris Removal Mission Is Itself Hit by Space Debris 21
SpaceX's Bandwagon Program Is a Big Deal 21
US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites 57
China Launches First Geosynchronous Orbit Radar Satellite 38
Could Supermassive Black Holes Explain Our Universe's Gravitational-Wave 'Hum'? 19
How to Turn an Asteroid into a Space Habitat (Using Self-Replicating Spider Robots) 65
Planetary Defense Test Deflected An Asteroid But Unleashed a Boulder Swarm 63
Russia's Luna 25 Mission Launches To the Moon 60
Virgin Galactic Successfully Flies Tourists To Space For First Time 48
Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down 118
Gamma Ray Detection Marks Highest Energy Light From the Sun 34
SpaceX Studies Use of Starship as a Space Station 18
NASA Finally Restores Communication with Voyager 2 After Two Weeks 47
India Says Space Junk Found In Australia Is Theirs 28
Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid 19
Biden Reverses Trump Decision, Keeps Space Command In Colorado 199
Search for Voyager 2 After Nasa Accidentally Sends Wrong Command 76
Euclid Space Telescope Sends Back First Images of the Cosmos 11
Webb Telescope Spots Water (Vapor) in a Nearby Planetary System 25
Boeing's Starliner Program Reaches Staggering $1.1 Billion in Losses 78
The US Government is Taking a Serious Step Toward Space-Based Nuclear Propulsion 80
A Nearly 20-Year Ban on Human Spaceflight Regulations Set To Expire 25
How Astronomers Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades 29
Two-Faced Star With Helium and Hydrogen Sides Baffles Astronomers 64
Something In Space Has Been Lighting Up Every 20 Minutes Since 1988 86
Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to Date - and It's Small 26
Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon's Far Side 46
Age of Universe Nearly Twice As Old As Previously Believed 87
Congress Prepares To Continue Throwing Money At NASA's Space Launch System 59
Researchers Discover Stardust Sprinkled On a Nearby Asteroid 11
India Launches a Lander and Rover To Explore the Moon's South Pole 12
China Beats Rivals To Successfully Launch First Methane-Liquid Rocket 102
NASA Decides Not To Launch Two Already-Built Asteroid Probes 19
NASA Expands Developers' Contracts For Its Next-Gen Spacesuits 5
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Engine Explodes During Testing 79
SpaceX Makes Record-Breaking 16th Flight With a Falcon 9 Booster 65
Harvard Professor Believes He's Found Fragments of Alien Technology 138
Blue Origin Is Planning To Open New Launch Sites Outside the US 31
Quasar 'Clocks' Show the Universe Was Five Times Slower Soon After the Big Bang 57
Europe's Venerable Ariane 5 Rocket Faces a Bittersweet Ending on Tuesday 75
What's the Mission of the US Space Force? 148
Could a Solar Superstorm Someday Trigger an 'Internet Apocalypse'? 107
SpaceX Launches ESA's 'Euclid' Space Telescope to Study Dark Energy's Effect on the Universe 19
Scientists Find 'Ghost Particles' Spewing From Our Milky Way Galaxy 16
Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal 53
Virgin Galactic Launches Crucial First Commercial Spaceflight 30
Planet That Shouldn't Exist Found 49
New Video Shows a Flyby of the Planet Mercury - with AI-Assisted Music 14
Has Avi Loeb Found the Remains of an Interstellar Object? 50
Webb Telescope Is Powerful Enough To See a Variety of Biosignatures In Exoplanets, Argues New Paper 39
Scientists Hope Euclid Telescope Will Reveal Mysteries of Dark Matter 44
How The JWST Could Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets 25
Researchers Argue Earth Formed Much Faster Than Believed, Suggest More Planets Could Have Water 17
A Startup Tries Making Medicine in Space 21
Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus Harbors Essential Elements For Life 29
Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93 135
'He's About to Graduate College and Join SpaceX as an Engineer. He's 14.' 91
Adventure in Space: ISS Astronauts Install Fifth Roll-out Solar Blanket to Boost Power 25
NASA Researchers Think (Microbial) Life Could Survive on the Moon 19
Parker Solar Probe Discovers Source of Solar Wind 31
China Wants To Launch a Moon-Orbiting Telescope Array As Soon As 2026 32
Long Space Missions Take a Toll On Astronaut Brains, Study Finds 54
Artificial Photosynthesis Could Be The Secret to Colonizing Space 23
Satellite Beams Solar Power Down To Earth, In First-of-a-Kind Demonstration 75
Boeing Delays Starliner Launch Again After Discovering Two Serious Problems 66
Hubble Network Wants To Connect a Billion Devices With Space-Based Bluetooth Network 60
SpaceX Mission Carrying Former NASA Astronaut, Three Paying Customers Returns From Space Station 19
China Launches Shenzhou-16 Mission To Chinese Space Station 14
Japan Will Try to Beam Solar Power from Space by 2025 111
A Quake on Mars Showed Its Crust is Thicker Than Earth's 15
JWST Discovers a Supermassive Black Hole is 'Far Larger Than Expected' 28
Gravitational-Wave Detector LIGO Is Back 10
Why North and South Korea Have Big Ambitions in Space: An 'Unblinking Eye' 13
'Alien' Signal Beamed To Earth From Mars In SETI Test 46
Virgin Orbit Shuts Down After Bankruptcy Sales 13
SpaceX Launches 10th Crewed Mission, Third Fully Commercial Flight 20
How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon 52
Astronomers Report Brightest-Ever, Three-Year Cosmic Explosion 13
Scientists Discover 62 More Moons Orbiting Saturn, Bringing Total to 145 Moons 33
SpaceX Says It Will Launch First Commercial Space Station By Mid-2025 88
Arianespace CEO: Europe Won't Have Reusable Rockets For Another Decade 123
Could We Build a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Using Jupiter for Raw Materials? 102
In a First, Astronomers Spot a Star Swallowing a Planet 10
As Many as Four Moons Around Uranus May Have Oceans Below the Surface 43
James Webb Space Telescope Detects Water Vapor Around Alien Planet 25
Droids for Space? Startup Plans Satellites With Robotic Arms For Repairs and Collecting Space Junk 19
Key Radar Antenna Stuck On Europe's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft 39
NASA Power Tweak Extends Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer 47
Japan's Ispace Assumes Failure in Bid To Make First Commercial Moon Landing 23
Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works 97
SpaceX Launches Debut Flight of Starship Rocket System 177
Solar Sails Could Guide Interplanetary Travel, Says New Study 47
Juice Mission Blasts Off To Jupiter To Look for Signs of Life 14

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