Space Stories for 2015

SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display 108
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? 194
Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings 163
NASA Rings Out 2015 With Close Looks At Ceres and Enceladus 15
Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content 78
Physicists Theorize Out How To Retrieve Information From a Black Hole 82
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral 373
ISRO Launches Six Singaporean Satellites 29
Physicists Find New Evidence For Helium 'Rain' On Saturn 27
Astronomers Successfully Predict Appearance of Supernova 86
China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe 71
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
The Astronaut Hopeful's Manifesto 33
Mars Colonies and Class Warfare 414
Clouds May Hide Water On Alien Worlds 27
European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say 74
Persistent Storm Detected On Low-Mass Star 39
Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? 94
Looking For Jupiter-Class Planets Indicates Solar Systems Like Ours Are Rare 90
Huge, Jupiter-Like Storm Rages On Cool 'Failed Star' 38
Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket 114
Simulation Pinpoints the Most Likely Spots For Life In the Milky Way 86
Japan Releases AKATSUKI's Pictures of Venus 44
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
Japanese Space Probe Akatsuki Enters Orbit Around Venus Five Years Late 51
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
Cygnus Launches In First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion 39
India Wins Contract To Launch Private Weather Satellites 34
Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter 73
Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram 157
More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives 88
Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives 177
Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator 171
Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act 218
2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways 73
NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go 54
Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly 29
NASA Concludes That Comets, Not Alien Megastructures Orbit KIC 8462852 105
Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite 31
Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space 373
Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets 171
Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans 103
Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again 121
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
New Spectroscope Perfect For Asteroid Mining, Planetary Research 56
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
Satellite Wars 98
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission To International Space Station 69
First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth 36
MIT Helping NASA Build Valkyrie Robots For Space Missions 35
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
Inside the Mission To Europa 106
Space Exploration Politics -- and an Explanation of the Apollo Flag 'Mystery' (Video) 39
Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For the Final Time 54
Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate 171
Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System 85
The Two Modern Space Races 99
Icy Volcanoes May Erupt On Pluto 32
SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 99
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Veteran Spaceflight Engineer Talks About Governance for Space Exploration (Video) 12
NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan 77
Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven 143
NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive 203
Why Gravity Is the Ultimate Space Telescope 42
The International Space Station Turns 15 69
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
NASA Releases First Images of Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus 26
NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars 162
Solar Energy in Space is not Necessarily Easy to Harvest (Video) 85
Cassini Probe Will Dive Through Enceladus's Water Jets 65
The International Space Station Is Home To Potentially Dangerous Bacteria 112
Two Radically Different Approaches to Private Access to Space 44
A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' 134
Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol 97
First Planet Known To Orbit a White Dwarf Is Falling Apart 67
New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors 274
Looking At the Hardware and Software of JAXA's Hayabusa-2 16
Only 8% of the Universe's Habitable Worlds Have Formed So Far 140
Study Questions Scientific Dating Method Used For Lunar Impacts 49
Europe and Russia Are Headed Back To the Moon Together 65
Space-Time: Scott Kelly Breaks Time-Aloft Record For US Astronauts 35
NASA Returns Images of Frozen Worlds Enceladus and Pluto 37
China Looks To Deep Space Missions, Including More Lunar Landings and Robot Ants 65
Going To Mars Via the Moon 151
How Some Creative Hacking Kept Skylab From Becoming Space Junk 69
Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record 10
Looking At the Hardware and Software of NASA's New Horizons 76
The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement 145
Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere 339
The Rise and Fall of NASA's Shuttle-Centaur 53
Researchers Create 'Habitability Index' For Exoplanets 52
Space Travel For the 1%: Virgin Galactic's $250,000 Tickets Haunt New Mexico Town 239
Review: The Martian 242
B612 Foundation Loses Partnership With NASA; Asteroids Not a Significant Risk 182
An Ice House Design Concept For Mars Bets Long On Liquid Water 63
Vostochny Launch Building Built To the Wrong Size 102
Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res 93
Moon Express Signs Launch Contract For Possible First Private Lunar Landing 73
NASA Targets Venus, Asteroids With Potential Missions 47
NASA's New Horizons Shows Pluto's Moon Charon Is a Strange, New World 94
The Case For Going To Phobos Before Going To Mars 150
Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer 269
Rosetta's Comet Is Actually 2 Comets Stuck Together 45
Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars 260
ISRO Launches Astrosat, India's First Dedicated Space Observatory 40
Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See 95
Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First 194
Making Mining the Asteroids and the Moon Legal 162
ESA-JAXA Team Wins 'America's Cup of Rocket Science' 20
Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS? 211
Scientists Propose Using Fast Radio Bursts To Chart Universe In 3D 27
US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO 72
NASA Funded Project Could Mine Asteroids For Water With Sunlight 37
Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood 365
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has Global Subsurface Ocean 72
Blue Origin To Launch Big Rockets From Canaveral's Rechristened Complex 36 71
DARPA Working On Robotic Satellite Repair 16
NASA Launching 4K TV Channel 41
Close-Up Images Show Ceres' Bright Spots In Great Detail 43
Hedgehog Rovers Hop and Tumble In Microgravity 31
Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" 210
Caltech Astronomers Discover Oldest Galaxy Yet Known 63
Commercial Space Crew Supporters Posit a Conspiracy Theory Involving Funding Shortages 62
Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem 172
NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System 99
China Preparing To Send Crewed Shenzhou 11 To Tiangong 2 Space Station In 2016 54
Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew 36
World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light 89
New Horizons' New Target: Kuiper Belt Ice Chunk 2014 MU69 43
Kristian von Bengston's New Goal: The Moon 24
The View From 2015: Integrated Space Plan's 100-Year Plan 36
In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment 81
How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina 59
ISRO Successfully Launches Satellite Into Geostationary Orbit 89
Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy 107
Interviews: L5 Society Cofounder Keith Henson Answers Your Questions 64
NASA Mulls Missions To Neptune and Uranus, Using the Space Launch System 77
Dawn Drops To 1470km Orbit, Snaps Sharper Pictures of Ceres 45
Some Observers Perceive the Universe To Be Much Younger Than We Do 139
Re-Examined IceCube Data Firms Up Case For Extra-Galactic Neutrinos 27
John S. Lewis On the Space Commodities Market 61
JAXA Prepares To Try Making Whiskey In Space 67
Tiny Pebbles Built the Gas Giant Behemoths 32
HTV-5 On Its Way To the ISS 87
Enormous Red Sprites Seen From Space 30
Interviews: Ask Engineer and L5 Society Cofounder Keith Henson a Question 111
The 10th Anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 18
Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet 173
Astronomers Discover Nearby 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet 28
Rosetta Probe's Comet Reaches Closest Approach To the Sun 16
Samsung Researchers Propose 4,600 Micro-Satellite Space Network 75
Our Early Solar System May Have Been Home To a Fifth Giant Planet 60
Galactic Survey: The Universe Dying as Old Stars Fade Faster Than New Ones Are Born 199
Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch 39
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12-13 19
Pictures of a Comet From 9 Meters Away 46
Urthecast Brings You Earth Images and Videos from the ISS (Video) 16
Poor Pilot Training Blamed For Virgin Galactic Crash 83
Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud 57
Andromeda Galaxy's Secrets Revealed By Going Beyond Visible Light 37
Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort 106
Pluto's Haze 63
Interviews: Shaun Moss Answers Your Questions About Mars and Space Exploration 48
NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star 134
Astronauts' Skin Gets Thinner In Space, Scientists Say 60
New Horizons Returns Best Images of Pluto's Moons Hydra and Nix 33
CanSat Helps Students Make & Launch Sub-Orbital 'Satellites' (Video) 22
Comet Lander Falls Silent; Scientists Fear It Has Moved 36
Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure 220
Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Start $100 Million Search For Aliens 208
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo's Re-entry Tech: the Feather 62
Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves 120
Asteroid Mining Company's First Satellite Launches From Space Station 35
The Frozen Plains of Pluto's 'Heart' 42
Preserving Radio Silence At the Square Kilometer Array 27
Astronauts Forced To Take Shelter From Space Junk 55
'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked 321
NASA Unveils Historic Pictures of Pluto 108
Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About 195
New Horizons Phones Home After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded 134
Planet Labs Has Launched Over 100 Imaging Satellites with Many More to Come (Video) 15
Study Details What Happens When Galaxies Collide 52
NASA's New Horizons Focuses On Pluto's Largest Moon Charon 77
ISRO Launches Record 5 UK Satellites, Part of a Long String of Successes 33
New Horizons Gets Closer to Pluto, But Mystery Spots Now Out of Sight 98
Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s 249
NASA Names Its Astronauts For the First Dragon and CST-100 Flights 38
SpaceX Rocket Failure Cost NASA $110 Million 204
Lifting the Veil On Pluto's Atmosphere 79
Interviews: Ask Shaun Moss About Mars and Colonizing Space 99
EPFL's CleanSpace One Satellite Will "Eat" Space Junk 53
Astronomers Teach a Machine To Analyze Space Images 28
UK May Send More People Into Space 87
A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit 41
More Supermassive Black Holes Than We Thought! 92
Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found 80
Glitch Halts New Horizons Operations As It Nears Pluto 107
Russian Progress Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station 47
Russian Cargo Ship Successfully Makes Orbit, Will Supply ISS 50
Rocket Labs Picks New Zealand For Its Launch Site 86
Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope 18
First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds 256
What If You Could See Asteroids In the Night Sky? 54
Asteroid Day On June 30 Aims To Raise Awareness of Collision Risks 76
The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid 88
Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto? 98
Touring NASA's Space Shuttle Cockpit Trainer 18
SpaceX Breaks Down Its Rocket Landing Attempts 72
Black Hole Awakens After 26 Years 58
OneWeb Secures "Largest Ever" Rocket Acquisition For Satellite Internet Launch 45
Stellar Rejuvenation: Some Exoplanets May Get Facelifts 29
Elon Musk Probably Won't Be the First Martian 169
SpaceX and OneWeb -- Same Goal, Different Technology and Strategy 54
Mauna Kea Telescope Construction Slated To Resume 65
Plasma Resonance Could Overcome Radio Silence For Returning Spacecraft 62
Venus May Have Active Volcanoes 45
Orbiting 'Rest Stops' Could Repair Crumbling Satellites 59
Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? 272
Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary 419
'Warm Neptune' Exoplanets May Have Lots of Helium 20
A First: CubeSat-Style Probes To Accompany InSight Mars Lander 22
Online At Last: Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up 62
ESA Still Searching For Philae; May Have Zeroed In On a Possible Location 21
Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed 143
75% of Russia's Satellite Electronics Come From US 127
Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services 173
NASA Probe Reveals More Detail In Pluto's Complex Surface 66
SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet 98
Google and Facebook Cancel Satellite Plans 33
Parachute Problems Plague NASA's Flying Saucer 41
LightSail Wakes Up After Silent Spell and Tries To Spread Solar Sails 72
NASA To Test Inflatable Donut For Landing On Mars 38
Pluto's Outer Moons Orbit Chaotically, With Unpredictable Sunrises and Sunsets 92
Mystery Moon Swirls Caused By Blasts of Comet Gas? 11
SpaceX Applies To Test Internet Service Satellites 50
Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene 265
Does a Black Hole Have a Shape? 108
Rosetta Team Proposes Landing On Comet To Finish Mission 35
Ground Crew Back In Touch With LightSail Solar Spacecraft 56
Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent 366
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race 275
Black Hole Plays Pool With Plasma 43
SpaceX Cleared For US Military Launches 62
How To Die On Mars 278
Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced 94

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