Space Stories for 2019

What Exactly Happened During Boeing's Starliner Mission to the ISS? 80
Russia Claims New Missile is 27 Times Faster Than Sound 189
Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
China's Long March 5 Rocket Returns To Flight 20
First Active Fault Zone Found on Mars 27
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 70
Bringing Rocks Back From Mars 65
Ethiopia Has Launched its First Satellite Into Space 46
Could Spacecraft Catch the Solar Winds With 'Electric Sails'? 62
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
The Big Business of Being a Space Janitor 49
Boeing Capsule Goes Off Course, Won't Dock at Space Station 158
Missing Stars Could Point To Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say 289
Europe's Cheops Telescope Will Profile Distant Planets 37
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Astronomers Find 19 More Galaxies Missing Their Dark Matter 90
'Monster' Black Hole Announced Last Week Is Nothing Special 39
Astronomers Find the Biggest Black Hole Ever Measured 110
European Plan To Tackle Space Debris? Hug it Out 22
Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' 43
SpaceX Sends Dragon Soaring To the ISS 31
NASA Spacecraft Unraveling Sun's Mysteries as it Spirals Closer To Our Star 30
India's Crashed Vikram Moon Lander Spotted On Lunar Surface 60
Astronomers Have Now Photographed A Second Interstellar Comet 22
Monster Black Hole That 'Should Not Exist' Discovered in the Milky Way 49
2 Months After Failed Moon Landing, India Acknowledges Its Craft Crashed 42
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Save Earth? 'Move All Heavy Industry into Space' 210
An Alarming Discovery In an Astronaut's Bloodstream 90
Does SpaceX's Starlink Project Pose an Existential Threat to Astronomy? 132
Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa 30
Bold Space Mission To Bring Back Rocks From Mars Takes Shape 48
A Mysterious Burst of Energy In Space Has Smashed Records 82
SpaceX's Prototype Starship Rocket Partially Bursts During Testing In Texas 76
China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World 65
A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy 116
Researcher Finally Explains Why Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has 'Tiger Stripes' 6
Something Strange Seems To Be Causing Distant Galaxies To Synchronize 191
SpaceX Successfully Tests Crewed Dragon Launch Abort Engines 31
SpaceX Launches Another 60 Starlink Satellites, Sets Two Rocket Reuse Records 73
Did Life Originate From 'Protocells' By Hydrothermal Vents? 86
AI Cracks Centuries-Old 'Three Body Problem' In Under a Second 146
What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We've Got It All Wrong 93
NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found 'Super Emitters' 63
The Cost For Each SLS Launch Is Over $2 Billion 99
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
SpaceX Goes For Two Big Reuse Milestones With Next Launch 22
Interstellar Space Even Weirder Than Expected, NASA Probe Reveals 152
NASA Livestreams a Test of Boeing's 'Starliner' Spacecraft 30
Second 'Oumuamua-Like Comet From Beyond Our Solar System Suggests 'Alien' Comets May Be Common 24
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy 31
Tracking Satellites Through Crowdsourcing 30
Physicists Simulate Critical 'Reheating' Period That Kickstarted the Big Bang 69
After Two Years The Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 39
Samsung Satellite Crashes Into Family's Backyard 63
How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched To LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache 88
The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say 104
Some of the Universe's Heavier Elements Are Created By Neutron Star Collisions 53
US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk 141
Rocket Lab Launches Highest Mission Yet To Put Astro Digital Satellite In Orbit 27
Earth-Like Planets May Be Common Outside Our Solar System, Scientists Discover 52
SpaceX Says 12,000 Satellites Isn't Enough, So It Might Launch Another 30,000 142
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet 50
Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter 34
The First All-Female Spacewalk Is Scheduled For This Month 108
Alexei Leonov, the First Human To Walk In Space, Has Died At Age 85 22
NASA Aims For First Manned SpaceX Mission in First-Quarter 2020 31
A Growing Number of Astrophysicists Are Leaving Academia To Work For Tech Startups 75
Saturn Overtakes Jupiter As Host To Most Moons In Solar System 34
First Meat Grown In Space Lab 248 Miles From Earth 29
Is It Possible To Build a Warp Drive? 166
Aliens May Have Bugged Co-Orbital Space Rocks To Spy On Earth, Scientist Says 135
Organic Compounds Found In Plumes of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus 34
New Theory On Mysterious Oumuamua Space Object Revealed 54
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It's Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions 73
NASA Launches a New Earth-like Planet Hunting Telescope Using a Giant Balloon 17
Giant Planet Around Tiny Star 'Should Not Exist' 82
Elon Musk Is Webcasting a Live Update About 'Starship' 156
NASA Partners With General Electric To Advance The Future Of Electric Flight 79
Gigantic Chinese Telescope Opens To Astronomers Worldwide 28
What 'Ad Astra' and Brad Pitt Get Wrong About Space Travel, Science and Life In the Cosmos 89
Ask Slashdot: Could Climate Change Be Solved By Manipulating Photons in Space? 382
Did a Prehistoric Asteroid Breakup Shower Earth With Enough Dust To Change the Climate? 24
SpaceX Tries Buying Out Homeowners Around Starhopper's Texas Launchpad 132
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Targets Final Asteroid Landing 11
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find 161
Comet Visitor From Outside Our Solar System Will Wow Scientists For Months 34
Tonight's Asteroid Will Pass So Close To Earth, Home Telescopes Can See It 43
Europe's Space Industry Is Working On Reusable Rockets With Environmentally-Friendly Fuel 72
Study Finds the Universe Might Be 2 Billion Years Younger 132
Water Found On a Potentially Life-Friendly Alien Planet 71
Astronomers Have Spotted An Interstellar Comet Flying Toward Earth 49
SpaceX Confirms It's Almost Ready To Test Its Orbital Starship 89
New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters 19
Short Film 'The Comet' Uses Real Images From ESA's Rosetta Space Probe 6
Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter Is Still Going Strong 31
One Number Shows Something Is Fundamentally Wrong With Our Conception of the Universe 260
SpaceX Satellite Was On 'Collision Course' Until ESA Satellite Was Re-Routed 65
A Fingerprint of Earth From Space 14
On the Far Side of the Moon, China's Rover Discovers a Strangely-Colored Gel-Like Substance 67
Physicists Release Step-by-Step Instructions For Building a Wormhole 73
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Sets New Record For Time In Space 50
Study Shows Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life Than Exists On Earth 125
Scientists Excited By Discovery of an Impossibly Large Black Hole 41
Plasma Thrusters For Small Satellite Systems Hit Hyper Drive 17
Trump Launches Space Command 190
SpaceX Launches Starship 'Hopper' On Dramatic Test Flight 126
Sheriff Warns Angry Locals To Vacate Houses Before SpaceX's 'Starhopper' Test 121
Musk and Bezos' Satellite Internet Could Save Consumers Billions of Dollars 96
US Govt Considers Changing Requirements for Rocket Launches. Commercial Space Group Objects 14
First Alleged Crime In Space? 70
India's Chandrayaan-2 Spacecraft Enters the Moon's Orbit 14
NASA Mission To Jupiter Moon Europa Moves Step Closer To Launch 26
How SpaceX Plans To Move Starship From Cocoa Site To Kennedy Space Center 42
Scientists Are 99 Percent Sure They Just Detected a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star 41
Nuclear Reactor For Mars Outpost Could Be Ready To Fly By 2022 114
Something Big Just Slammed Into Jupiter 63
Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests 112
Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down. 51
Tardigrades Are Now On the Moon Thanks To a Crashed Israeli Spacecraft 164
SpaceX Successfully Launches Twice-Flown Falcon 9, Catches Fairing At Sea 91
One Search To (Almost) Rule Them All: Hundreds of Hidden Planets Found in Kepler Data 39
Best Milky Way Map Yet Confirms Our Galaxy Is Warped and Twisted 82
Scientists Are Using the Cold of Outer Space To Rethink Air Conditioning 218
SpaceX Makes Plans For Up To 24 Starship Launches A Year From Florida 35
NASA Cut 385 Acres of Trees In Florida For a Better View of Launch Pads 108
DoubleTree Hotels Wants The ISS Astronauts To Bake Cookies 88
Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters 47
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight By Light 87
Scientists Stunned By 'City-Killer' Asteroid That Just Missed Earth On July 25 252
Star Orbiting Massive Black Hole Lends Support To Einstein's Theory 61
France Is Making Space-Based Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons 184
NASA's Lunar Space Station Might Be a Boondoggle 207
Can We Use Special Sails To Bring Old Satellites Back Down To Earth? 70
NASA Marks The 50-Year Anniversary of Man's First Steps on the Moon 114
Chinese Space Station Tiangong-2 Is About To Fall From Space 149
Jeff Bezos: I Spend My Billions On Space Because We're Destroying Earth 330
Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software 171
Cause of SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion Revealed 81
Scientists Could Use Aerogel Sheets To Make Mars Surface Fit For Farming 176
NASA Funds Company To 3D-Print Spacecraft Parts in Orbit 28
India Plans Historic Launch of a Rocket to the Moon 89
Inside 'Starshot', the Audacious Plan To Shoot Tiny Ships To Alpha Centauri 229
Japan's Hayabusa2 Probe Makes Second Touchdown On Distant Asteroid 50
Moons That Escape Their Planets Could Become 'Ploonets' 78
Scientists 3D-Print Human Skin and Bone For Mars Astronauts 39
Moon Landing Could Have Infected the Earth With Lunar Germs, Say Astronauts 180
Ask Slashdot: Should the ISS Go Commercial? 193
Astrophysicist Tries Machine Learning To Generate a Black Hole Movie 70
LightSail 2 Sends Back 1st Signals From Its Solar-Surfing Test Flight 61
Scientists Are Using Subatomic Particles To Search For a Mirror Universe 212
Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks In Ultraviolet 35
SpaceX Tests Broadband Satellite Network, Claims 'First To Operate' Status 97
ISS Is Home To Molds That Can Withstand Radiation Doses That Would Kill a Human, Researchers Find 74
NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission To Explore Titan 85
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi 104
Mars Colonization Possible Through Sperm Bank In Space, Study Suggests 228
SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket With Two Flight-Proven Booster Cores 107
Bezos Says Blue Origin Will One Day Refuel Its Lunar Lander With Ice From the Moon 114
Poll: Americans Want NASA To Focus More On Asteroid Impacts, Less On Getting To Mars 127
One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week -- a Working Solar Sail 78
Two Potentially Life-Friendly Planets Found Orbiting a Nearby Star 217
Mysterious Clouds On Mars Formed By 'Meteoric Smoke,' Study Says 37
Astronomers Detected Signs of Our Milky Way Colliding With Another Galaxy 47
NASA Estimates It Will Need $20 Billion To $30 Billion For Moon Landing 241
Earth Nearing 'Meteor Swarm' That May Have Caused 1908 Tunguska Event 181
India Plans To Have Its Own Space Station 113
SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket On the California Coast 59
India Set To Launch Second Lunar Mission; Land Rover on the Moon 93
NASA 'Snoopy' Lunar Module Likely Found 50 Years After Being Jettisoned Into Space 117
Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create a New Aerospace Giant 45
NASA is Sending an Atomic Clock Into Deep Space 71
NASA To Open International Space Station To Tourists 111
NASA's Mars Helicopter Passes Another Flight Test 60
Researchers Solve Mystery of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter 102
James Webb Space Telescope Emerges Successfully From Final Thermal Vacuum Test 82
Space Firm Founded By Paul Allen Closing Operations, Report Says 59
Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life 79
SpaceX's Bright Starlink Satellites Are Upsetting Astronomers 199
Exploding Stars Led To Humans Walking On Two Legs, Radical Study Suggests 170
SpaceX's Train of Satellites Creates Temporary 'Mega-Constellation' 66
A Rocket Built By Students Reached Space For the First Time 55
SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites On Thrice-Flown Rocket, Sticks Landing 137
SpaceX's Starhopper Moves Closer To Its First Flight 69
Protect Solar System From Mining 'Gold Rush', Say Scientists 229
China's Rover Reveals Moon's Hidden Depths 48
A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe 63
NASA Says the Moon Is Shrinking and Experiencing 'Moonquakes' 67
Jeff Bezos Unveils Lunar Lander To Take Astronauts To the Moon By 2024 104
Robert Zubrin Makes 'The Case For Space' 200
Experimental Device Generates Electricity From the Coldness of the Universe 129
First Private Japanese Rocket Reaches Space 41
NASA Seems Open To Even More Re-Uses Of SpaceX Booster Rockets 50
UK Nuclear Lab Achieves Americum-Generated Power 135
Blue Origin Successfully Launches and Lands Its New Shepard Rocket During 11th Test Flight 114
NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure 351
Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected 186
First 'Marsquake' Detected on Red Planet 34
Black Hole Photo Used Supercomputers and Cloud Computing To Prove Einstein Right 64
How Facebook Mis-Captioned the Launch of a NASA Supply Rocket 37
Smoke 'Seen For Miles' as SpaceX Crew Dragon Suffers Anomaly at Cape Canaveral 107
An Interstellar Meteor May Have Hit Earth 65
TESS Discovers Its First Earth-Sized Planet 82
Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule 71
Pepsi Drops Plans To Use Artificial Constellation To Promote An Energy Drink 85
Traversable Wormholes Can Exist, But They're Not Very Useful For Space Travel, Physicists Say 111
SpaceX Loses the Center Core of Its Falcon Heavy Rocket Due To Choppy Seas 103
Privately-Funded Moon Mission Will Try Again. 'Lunar Library' May Be On The Moon 37
'BlackHoles@Home' Will Use Your PC For DIY Gravitational Wave Analysis 50
Paul Allen's Stratolaunch Finally Flies The World's Biggest Plane 69
Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space 151
GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of the Black Hole Image 56
Final Results of NASA Twins Study Show How Scott Kelly Changed After a Year In Space 43
The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives 293
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches First Paid Mission, Lands All Three Boosters For the First Time 85
Moon Landing By Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash 95
Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer 115
Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' 322
LIGO Spots Another Gravitational Wave Soon After Powering Back On 46
The ISS Is a Cesspool of Bacteria and Fungi, Study Finds 151
After 15 Years, The Humble Space Telescope Can No Longer Be Powered Up 60
Over A Dozen Satellites From SpaceX's December Launch Can't Be Identified 52
Japanese Spacecraft Drops Explosive On Asteroid To Make Crater 34
Amazon To Offer Broadband Access From Orbit With 3,236-Satellite 'Project Kuiper' Constellation 153
SpaceX Fires Up the Engine On Its Test Starship Vehicle For the First Time 72
Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA 217
Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space? 85
Physicists Predict a Way To Squeeze Light From the Vacuum of Empty Space 82
Physicists Build Donut-Shaped Magnet To Find 'Ghost-Like' Dark Matter Particle 154
Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests 77
GITAI Partners With JAXA To Send Telepresence Robots To Space 27
India Shoots Down Satellite in Test 158
Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary' 375
First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit 181
Improved Estimates of the Distance To the Large Magellanic Cloud 56
Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour 59
Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes at the Edge of the Universe 86
'Halo Drive' Would Use Black Holes To Power Spaceships 157
Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds 177
The Opportunity Rover's Final Photo of Mars 48
Radioactive Particles From Huge Solar Storm Found In Greenland 54
Has the Great 'Moonrush' Begun? 143
NASA Captures Unprecedented Images of Supersonic Shockwaves 37
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth After Historic Test Flight 121
Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought 180
Probe From NASA's InSight Lander Burrows Into the Soil of Mars 83
SpaceX Aces First Launch of Crew Dragon, Built to Carry Humans, and Falcon 9 Touchdown 65
Computer Servers 'Stranded' in Space 89

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