Space Stories for 2016

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Outside Our Galaxy 205
NASA Designs 'Ice Dome' For Astronauts On Mars 126
Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits 113
China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 115
Vera Rubin, Pioneering Astronomer Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter, Dies At 88 162
China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful 470
Japan Successfully Launches Solid Fuel Rocket 107
Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules 63
SpaceX Delays First Crewed Flight Of Its Dragon Capsule For NASA 39
Japan Sends Its New Space Junk-Fighting Technology To The ISS 64
Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again 99
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 113
NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft 38
Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars 67
Russian Supply Rocket Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia En Route To ISS 135
ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' 58
Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested 244
San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space 242
Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever 93
Spinal Fluid Changes In Space May Impair Astronauts' Vision, Study Finds 77
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication In Deep Space 58
An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico 113
ESA: European Mars Lander Crash Caused By 1-Second Glitch 110
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year 313
Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results 477
ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites 68
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over 52
How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' 102
Atlas V Rocket Launches Sharp-Eyed Earth-Observing Satellite 19
China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite 46
November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years 53
Australia To Play Strategic Role in Biggest Ever Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life 25
New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter 164
Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work 711
New Paper Explores The Prospects For Life Around M-Class Stars 69
A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe 99
China Launches New Heavy-Lift Long March 5 Rocket For First Time 93
World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected To Launch In 2018 156
NASA Signals Interest In Extending Commercial Spaceflight To the Moon 24
SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells 190
NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX To Mars 98
Where Does Jeff Bezos Foresee Putting Space Colonists? Inside O'Neill Cylinders 151
Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander 163
Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims 128
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Last Bit of Data From 2015 Pluto Flyby 60
SpaceX Says Helium Loading Issue May Have Caused Falcon 9 Explosion 38
Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller 191
Those Facebook Live Videos From Space That Are Going Viral Are Fake, NASA Confirms 39
Curious Tilt of the Sun Traced To Undiscovered Planet 232
Elon Musk's Mars Colony Would Have a Horde of Mining Robots 222
"Splat" of Schiaparelli Mars Lander Likely Found 106
Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says 112
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thinks Space Can Be the New Internet 90
Schiaparelli Mars Probe's Parachute 'Jettisoned Too Early', Whereabouts Still Unknown 185
ESA Lander's Signal Cut Out Just Before It Was Supposed To Land on Mars 244
Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests 125
Orbital ATK Returns To Flight With Successful Antares Launch To Space Station 68
China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit 265
NASA's Plan To Put Juno Closer To Jupiter Delayed 6
NASA Has No Plans To Buy More Soyuz Seats 87
President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' 169
The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought 258
Scientists Unveil Plans For First Space Nation 'Asgardia,' Open Citizenship Applications 275
NASA To Allow Private Companies To Hook Up Modules To ISS 64
Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap To Mars, To Send People There by the 2030s 348
'Space Brain': Mars Explorers May Risk Neural Damage, Study Finds 186
MuckRock Identifies The Oldest US Government Computer Still in Use 60
Kennedy Space Center Braces For Hurricane Matthew 82
Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset 63
Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test 89
Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars 254
British Trio Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Study of Exotic Matter 25
Toyota's Kirobo Mini Companion Robot To Sell For $400 62
Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station 132
Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue To SpaceX Investigation 182
Rosetta's 12-Year Mission Ends With Landing On Comet 40
Rosetta Spacecraft Prepares To Land On Comet, Solve Lingering Mysteries 40
The United Nations Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021 58
Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' 474
Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days 497
SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video 202
Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Water Plumes That Rise Up About 125 Miles 96
SpaceX Tests Its Raptor Engine For Future Mars Flights 114
China's Giant Radio Telescope Begins Searching For Signals From Space 49
Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' 145
SpaceX Blast Investigation Suggests Breach in Oxygen Tank's Helium System 79
Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars 137
Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us 280
Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches 55
China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth 275
Elon Musk Scales Up His Ambitions, Considering Going 'Well Beyond' Mars 289
China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years 111
Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays 106
28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back 153
China Launches Second Space Lab 88
Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix 284
Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map 74
SpaceX Plans To Resume Launches In November 64
Jeff Bezos Unveils the Design of Blue Origin's Future Orbital Rocket -- New Glenn 79
NASA Shares Curiosity's New Mars Photos 88
Should We Seed Life On Alien Worlds? 231
Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? 209
New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes 75
Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion 266
Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' 204
NASA Launches OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft To Intercept Asteroid 36
A Small Asteroid Buzzed Earth Wednesday, But Everything's Cool 94
Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant 145
China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea 73
Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight 239
Tencent Is Now the Most Valuable Company in Asia 31
An Asteroid Has Been Named After Freddie Mercury 58
Long-Lost Comet Lander Philae Found 70
NASA Announces New Mars Probe, While SpaceX Is Urged To Focus on Launches 84
Second Irregularly Dimming Star Found 151
SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track Near Los Angeles 125
NASA Releases First-Ever Close-Up Images of Jupiter's North Pole 54
NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space 248
Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad 338
Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel 225
SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth 146
EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way 532
SpaceX Finds a Customer For Its First Reused Rocket 121
Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects 154
SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star 282
ISRO Successfully Test-fires Scramjet Rocket Engine 54
Recent College Grads Aim To Land A Robot On The Moon 59
Juno Probe To Get First Up-Close Look At Jupiter On Saturday 32
SpaceX Dragon Returns Home From ISS 55
Amazon, NVIDIA and The CIA Want To Teach AI To Watch Us From Space 60
NASA's Voyager 2 Flew By Saturn 35 Years Ago Today 61
NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Sets New US Space Endurance Record With 521 Days 44
Earth-Like Planet, With Ambitious Life Possibility, Found Orbiting the Star Next Door 218
NASA Reconnects With 'Lost' STEREO-B Satellite 107
NanoRacks Plans To Turn Used Rocket Fuel Tanks Into Space Habitats 130
Astronauts Successfully Install Parking Spot At ISS 45
US Air Force Wants To Plasma Bomb The Sky To Improve Radio Communication 159
Astronauts To Install A Parking Space For SpaceX and Boeing At The ISS 77
From Now On You'll Be Able To Access NASA Research For Free 64
China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite 102
There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests 240
Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet 347
Fourth SpaceX Rocket Successfully Landed on A Drone Ship 71
Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early 250
How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War 66
China Starts Developing Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane 90
Barry Jenner, Who Played Admiral Ross On 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' Dies At 75 59
Venus May Have Been Habitable, Says NASA 211
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Up To 200 Meteors Per Hour 62
NASA Awards Companies $65 Million To Develop Habitats For Deep Space 88
NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars 62
NASA: Revolutionary Camera Recording Propulsion Data Completes Test 81
NASA Celebrates Curiosity's Fourth Year On Mars With a Game 35
North Korea Hopes To Plant Flag On The Moon Within 10 Years 215
Moon Express Gets FAA Approval For Lunar Mission In 2017 55
NASA's 'Journey To Mars' Initiative Might Be Delayed Due To Government Audit 65
New Solar Cells Can Convert CO2 Into Hydrocarbon Fuel 195
Class of Large But Very Dim Galaxies Discovered 105
Study: Astronauts Who Reach Deep Space 'Far More Likely To Die From Heart Disease' 157
ULA Interns Launch Record-Breaking 50-Foot Rocket 79
Laser-Armed Martian Robot Now Vaporizing Targets of Its Own Free Will 73
Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater 162
47 Years Ago Today, Apollo 11 Landed On the Moon 185
Taiwan Building Lunar Lander For NASA Moon-Mining Mission 84
Kepler Confirms 100+ New Exoplanets 37
SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time 103
The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies 96
Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber 256
How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle 237
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter 77
New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System 119
Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? 387
Assembly Code That Took America to the Moon Now Published On GitHub 74
How Richard Feynman's Diagrams Almost Saved Space 42
First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System 41
George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' 354
NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter 131
China Finishes Building Its Alien-Hunting Telescope 64
United Launch Alliance Plans For 1,000 People Working In Space By 2045 135
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Braves Jupiter Radiation For a 4th of July Arrival 74
Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? 359
Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today 171
'Healing' Detected In Antarctic Ozone Hole, Says Study 95
CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines 254
Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too 265
Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever 268
Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover 70
Axiom Plans A New Private-Sector Outpost in Space 28
NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope 47
Computer Simulations Point To the Source of Gravitational Waves 126
India Launches Record 20 Satellites In Space Using A Single Rocket 110
J.J. Abrams Reacts To Death of Star Trek Actor Anton 'Chekov' Yelchin 221
NASA Unveils Plans For Electric-Powered Plane 55
Star Trek/Axanar Lawsuit Isn't Going Away Just Yet 97
Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System 84
Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth 237
Finnish Scientist Provides Another Explanation For The 'Impossible' EM Drive 299
Google Accused of Stealing Balloon Network Tech Behind Project Loon 58
Second Gravitational Wave Detected From Ancient Black Hole Collision 220
Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study 159
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship 130
Asymmetric Molecule, Key To Life, Detected In Space For First Time 56
Air, Land, Sea, Cyber: NATO Adds Cyberspace To Operation Areas 33
First SpaceX Missions To Mars: 'Dangerous and Probably People Will Die' 412
NASA And The UAE Will Collaborate On A Journey To Mars 84
A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters 119
What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein 180
Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct 559
Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought 146
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years 224
NASA Satellite Finds 39 Unreported Sources of Toxic Air Pollution 39
We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos 306
SpaceX Successfully Lands A Falcon 9 Rocket At Sea For The Third Time 107
Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age 166
Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics 207
Space Updates From Three Countries 62
There Were Mega-Tsunamis On Mars 41
Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test 132
Europa's Ocean Chemistry Could Be Earth-Like 73
ISS Completes 100,000th Orbit of Earth 103
Astronauts Won't Be Flying To Space In Boeing's Starliner Until 2018 89
NASA's Planet Hunter Spots Record 1,284 New Planets, 9 In A Habitable Zone 83
Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere 132
15-Year-Old Boy Discovers Long-Lost Ancient Mayan City Using Constellations And Google 98
NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents 19
GoPro Footage Gives You A Rocket's-Eye View Of Spaceflight 80
SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship Again 150
Are We Alone In the Universe? Not Likely, According To Math 267
Scientists Discover Three Potentially Habitable Planets 122
Design, Hardware, Software Errors Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft 101
SpaceX Intends To Send a Red Dragon To Mars As Early As 2018 119
Stephen Hawking Suggests Black Holes Are Possible Portals To Another Universe 230
British Astronaut Competes in London Marathon from ISS 61
ESA Offering Prizes For First Radio Reception From Satellite 9
NASA Hackathon Expected to Draw Over 15,000 Coders 46
Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon 52
CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access 60
Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation 830
NASA Gives Solar Ionic Propulsion A Monster Boost 52
China Plans To Reach Mars by 2020 and Eventually Build a Moon Base 105
World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time 142
The 'Impossible' EM Drive Being Tested By NASA May Finally Be Explained 532
Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping 368
NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' 412
Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find 76
NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions 68
Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport 102

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