Space Stories for 2018

A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore 88
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever 92
'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' 473
SpaceX Launches Air Force's Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever Built 48
'Something Weird Is Going On' as New Horizons Approaches Distant Asteroid 83
Mars Express Beams Back Images of Ice-Filled Korolev Crater 104
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 48
Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says 228
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries 111
NASA's Jupiter Mission Juno Reveals Giant Polar Storms 21
Virgin Galactic Successfully Reaches Space 87
South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency 71
Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' 151
NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars 40
China's Chang'e-4 Launches On Mission To the Moon's Far Side 41
SpaceX Sends Dragon To ISS But Falcon 9 Rocket Misses Landing Pad 133
China Set To Launch First-Ever Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon, Will Attempt To Grow Plant There 138
SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit 54
Can New Metal-Air Transistors Replace Semiconductors and Continue Moore's Law? 153
Richard Branson Says He's Going to Send People Into Space by Christmas 89
Recent Quasar Observations Support Lots of Mini-Bangs Instead of One Big Bang 263
Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years 108
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space 30
ISS Marks 20 Years Orbiting Earth With Longest Timelapse Ever Made In Space 54
NASA Will Land InSight on Mars With Cunning -- and Lots of Cork 70
Nearby Star Is Sun's Long-Lost Sibling 95
Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' 124
Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX 225
NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission 58
NASA Considers Selling Seats on the Spacecraft Used For International Space Station 75
Antares Successfully Launches ISS Re-Supply Cargo Ship 40
Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm 55
NASA Decommissions the Kepler Space Telescope 60
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Used Falcon 9 Rocket, Marking Its Record-Tying 18th Launch of the Year 72
Large, Strangely Dim Galaxy Found Lurking On Far Side of Milky Way 68
Douglas Rain, Voice of HAL 9000 In '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies At 90 53
Rocket Lab's Modest Launch Is Giant Leap For Small Rocket Business 36
Did We Miss an Interstellar Comet Four Years Ago? 59
Existing Laser Technology Could Be Fashioned Into Earth's 'Porch Light' To Attract Alien Astronomers, Study Finds 257
Harvard Researchers Suggest Interstellar Object Might Have Been From Alien Civilization 162
SpaceX's Helipad-Equipped Boat Will Bring Astronauts Safely Home 29
NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space 21
Russia Blames a Bad Sensor For Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch 57
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Is Dead 86
About That Monstrous Black Hole We're All Orbiting 101
Elon Musk Shakes Up SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Division By Firing a Bunch of Managers 136
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope 124
Chinese Privately Developed Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit 66
China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? 240
NASA Revives Hubble Space Telescope After Three-Week Mechanical Failure 25
SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time 84
Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Bits of Halley's Comet 19
NASA Has Explored Manned Missions To Venus 122
Spacecraft BepiColombo Poised For Mission To Mercury 29
Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' 196
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 48
Jeff Bezos Predicts We'll Have 1 Trillion Humans in the Solar System, and Blue Origin Wants To Help Get Us There 184
Stephen Hawking's Last Paper Is Now Online 70
Moons Can Have Their Own Moons and They Could Be Called Moonmoons 168
The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade 107
There Could Be Massive Shards of Ice Sticking Out of Jupiter's Moon Europa 63
Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure 141
First SpaceX Mission With Astronauts Set For June 2019 48
Can We Test the Speed of Light Using 'Lensing' from Supernovae? 112
NASA Switches Curiosity Rover To Backup Computer Following Glitch 78
Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon 108
A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities 264
Evidence is Mounting That a World the Size of Neptune Could be Orbiting a Giant Planet Far, Far Away 66
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans For Huge Reusable Moon Lander For Astronauts 74
Discovery of 'Goblin' Solar System Object Bolsters the Case For Planet Nine 102
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Moon is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative To Mars, NASA Chief Says 64
Japanese Company Announces Long-Term Plan To Develop the Moon 148
Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu 76
Space Junk Successfully Captured In Orbit For the First Time (with Video) 66
Japan Has Attempted To Land Two Tiny Rovers On a Distant Asteroid 51
Radio Astronomers Are Increasingly Using Convolutional Neural Networks To Sift Through Massive Amounts of Data 15
Scientists Find 'Super-Earth' In Star System From 'Star Trek' 114
India's Space Agency Successfully Launches 2 UK Earth Observation Satellites 48
For Decades, Some of the Atomic Matter in the Universe Had Not Been Located. Recent Papers Reveal Where It Has Been Hiding 58
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' 308
SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon 143
FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory 261
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say 194
Bizarre Hexagon On Saturn May Be 180 Miles Tall 106
Japan To Test Mini 'Space Elevator' 114
Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak 255
Small Leak Discovered on Russian Side of International Space Station, NASA Says 109
Texas Lawmakers Press NASA To Base Lunar Lander Program In Houston 128
VP Pence Talks Moon Return and Mars Mission at NASA 146
Construction Begins On $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's 97
Two Months Later: NASA's Opportunity Rover Is Still Lost On Mars After Huge Dust Storm 46
India To Launch First Manned Space Mission By 2022 73
SpaceX Reveals the Controls of Its Dragon Spacecraft For the First Time 119
US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons 179
NASA Successfully Launches Parker Solar Probe 63
Study Finds Flaw In Emergent Gravity 50
Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Reaches 'Spinning-Top' Space Rock Ryugu 43
PSA: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Launching Saturday Morning; Here's How To Watch 35
VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force 528
NASA's Newest Spacecraft Will Fly Through the Sun's Scorching Hot Atmosphere 96
SpaceX Successfully Launches Its Used Block 5 Rocket 85
Satellite Internet Is Driving the Global Space Economy 29
Iconic Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Wakes Up, Phones Home 29
NASA Unveils the Astronauts Who Will Relaunch Human Space Flights From US Soil 54
NASA's Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip To the Moon 160
US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets 90
'World View' Wants To Send You To the Stratosphere in a Balloon 26
An Open Source, DIY Spacesuit Is About To Get Its First Life Or Death Test 28
Star's Black Hole Encounter Puts Einstein's Theory of Gravity To the Test 66
New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech 127
Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way 99
This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century 52
Two Big Rockets Launched Early Wednesday -- Then One Landed In High Seas 81
SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability 151
Star Trek: Discovery's Season 2 Trailer Teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro 164
Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers 208
ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble 139
Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway 97
Astronomers Discover 12 New Moons Orbiting Jupiter - One on Collision Course With the Others 95
Lockheed Martin Creates Its Largest 3D-Printed Space Part To Date 80
Telescope Offers 'Clearest View Yet' of Milky Way - Including Plasma Filaments 169
Astronomers Detected a 'Ghost Particle' and Tracked It To Its Source 47
NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976 70
NASA Commercial Crew Program for Space Station Faces Delays, Report Says 32
Kepler Telescope To Send NASA Its Last Images 27
India's ISRO Conducts First Escape Test For Nation's Manned Mission To Space 25
First Confirmed Image of a Newborn Planet Revealed 35
The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon 109
Ocean Spray On Saturn Moon Contains Crucial Constituents For Life 50
Space is Full of Dirty, Toxic Grease, Scientists Reveal 163
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Reaches Cosmic 'Diamond' 15
We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests 519
The Quest To Make Super-Cold Quantum Blobs in Space 44
Russia's Proton Rocket, Which Predates Apollo, Will Finally Stop Flying 83
Can NASA Protect Earth from Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions? 92
Blue Origin Plans To Start Selling Suborbital Spaceflight Tickets Next Year 58
Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact 52
White House Issues Strategies To Combat Growing Orbital Debris Risks 86
President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch 513
US Eyes Robot Moon Missions as it Prepares For Astronauts' Return 88
NASA's Most Experienced Astronaut Retires, Spent 665 Days In Space 49
Mars Opportunity Rover Is In Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm 105
New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up To Prepare For Historic Flyby of Distant Object 36
Majority of Americans Believe It Is Essential That the US Remain a Global Leader in Space 286
NASA Extends Juno Jupiter Mission By Three Years 21
SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon 124
How Microbes Survive Clean Rooms and Contaminate Spacecraft 24
NASA Wants 40 Social Media Users To Attend SpaceX's Next Launch 23
Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? 74
NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto 32
Newest NOAA Weather Satellite Suffers Critical Malfunction 53
Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs 165
SpaceX Flies Satellites For Iridium, NASA In 10th Launch of 2018 28
Asteroid From Another Star System Found Orbiting Wrong Way Near Jupiter 84
German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive 309
A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine 82
China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon 120
Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? 256
Astronomers Discovered the Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen 69
US Government Wants To Start Charging For Landsat, the Best Free Satellite Data On Earth 239
NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe 98
Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found 134
SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite With New Upgraded 'Block 5' Falcon 9 Rocket 85
Earth's 'Bigger, Older Cousin' Maybe Doesn't Even Exist 52
'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' 301
One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy 92
Congress Is Quietly Nudging NASA To Look for Aliens 113
Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study 208
Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? 296
NASA Launches a New Mission To Mars 73
NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers 178
NASA To Send 1 Million People's Names To the Sun 76
Blue Origin Launches Its First Test Flight of 2018 57
NASA To Cancel Lunar Resource Prospector Mission 95
NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station 172
Jeff Bezos Says He Liquidates a $1 Billion of Amazon Stock Every Year To Pay For His Rocket Company Blue Origin 96
ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online 26
Scientists Discover That Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs 76
Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' On the Surface of a Comet 89
AI Trained on Images from Cosmological Simulations Surprisingly Successful at Classifying Real Galaxies in Hubble Images 20
SpaceX Launches NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite, Successfully Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket 37
NASA Planet-Hunter Set For Launch 34
NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space 102
ULA Is Livestreaming An Atlas V Rocket Launch 59
NASA May Fly Humans On the Less Powerful Version of Its Deep-Space Rocket 27
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' In Space 71
Northrop Grumman, Not SpaceX, Reported To Be at Fault For Loss of Top-Secret Zuma Satellite 70
Did Harvard Scientists Predict The End of the Universe? 155
Anticipating the Dangers of Space Radiation 23
Center of the Milky Way Has Thousands of Black Holes, Study Shows 64
SpaceX Can't Broadcast Earth Images Because of a Murky License 177
Computer Searches Telescope Data For Evidence of Distant Planets 12
US' Proposed China Tariffs Would Target Robotics, Satellites 208
Hubble Space Telescope Spots the Farthest Known Star 74
SpaceX Completes Its Seventh Successful Mission of 2018 With Launch of CRS-14 24
An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface 121
FCC Authorizes SpaceX's Ambitious Satellite Internet Plans 102
Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers 200
Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert 410
A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It 164
SpaceX Launch Last Year Punched Huge, Temporary Hole In the Ionosphere 76
SpaceX Indicates It Will Manufacture the BFR Rocket In Los Angeles 95
Did Stephen Hawking Owe a Nobel Physicist a Subscription To a Softcore Porn Magazine? 106
Google Open Sources Its Exoplanet-Hunting AI 16
No, Space Did Not Permanently Alter 7 Percent of Scott Kelly's DNA 51
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel 84
All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years 89
UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video 242
Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year 144
Can Electricity Travel Through Space on Astrophysical Jets? 313
Scientists Unsure Where Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth 78
FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites 128
NASA Spacecraft Reveals Jupiter's Interior In Unprecedented Detail 52
Stars Billions Of Years Old Drop Big Clue To Early Universe 20
IBM's Watson Is Going To Space 59
Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus 69
Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures 190
Jupiter's Great Red Spot May Soon Disappear 80
Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet 293
Putting Civilization in a Box For Space Means Choosing Our Legacy 92
Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right As It Begins 52
SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Carrying Starlink Demo Satellites 51
Bigelow Launching New Company To Sell Private Space Stations 57
Humanity's Biggest Machines Will Be Built in Space 147
SpaceX Hits Two Milestones In Plan For Low-Latency Satellite Broadband 82
Tesla Roadster Elon Musk Launched Into Space Has 6 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth In the Next Million Years 150
The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched 128
New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth 55
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Center Booster Lacked Ignition Fluid To Light Engines and Land On Platform 171
The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report 236
Searching For Lithium Deposits With Satellites 49
Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines 240
Scientists Create a New Form of Matter: Superionic Water Ice 62
SpaceX Successfully Lands Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Simultaneously After Rocket Launch [Update] 446
Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study 338
Scientists May Have Discovered the First Planets Outside the Milky Way 74
SpaceX Has Received Permission From the US Government To Launch Elon Musk's Car Toward Mars 225
Japan Launches the World's Smallest Satellite-Carrying Rocket 64
NASA Poised To Topple a Planet-Finding Barrier 66
SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite Into Orbit On a Used Falcon 9 Rocket 38
How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse 90
Rocket Lab Criticized For Launching Their Own Private 'Star' Into Orbit 265

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