Space Stories for 2020

SpaceX Will Attempt To Recover Super Heavy Rocket by Catching it With Launch Tower 130
Neptune's Weird Dark Spot Just Got Weirder 24
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Samples from Ryugu Asteroid Revealed After Delivery to Earth 3
An Asteroid the Size of a Dwarf Planet Is Lurking In Our Solar System 38
Photographer Captures ISS Passing Between Jupiter and Saturn 46
Evidence of 'Modified Gravity' In 150 Galaxies Strengthens Dark Matter Alternative 98
How To See Jupiter and Saturn Align On Monday Night 34
Scientists Looking for Aliens Investigate Radio Beam 'From Nearby Star' 75
Should America's Next President Abolish the Space Force? 330
Amazon's Answer To SpaceX Starlink Delivers 400Mbps In Prototype Phase 77
Capella Space Defends High-Resolution Satellite Photos Described as 'Eerily Observant' 79
US Space Force Members Are Now Called 'Guardians' 132
The 'Great' Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 62
OneWeb Launches 36 Satellites 30
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
China To Open Giant Telescope To International Scientists 32
Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System 74
Virgin Galactic Unexpectedly Aborted a Test Flight of Its Space Plane 34
SpaceX's Successful Starship High-Altitude Flight Ends In a Fiery Explosion 285
Aliens In Hiding Until Mankind Is Ready, Says Ex-Israeli Space Head 332
Voyager Probes Detect New Kind of 'Electron Burst' in Interstellar Space 24
Component Failure Found in Crew Capsule NASA Hoped to Launch in 2021 146
Jeff Bezos Shares Blue Origin Engine Test Footage 43
Dust From Japan's Asteroid-Blasting Probe Returns to Earth 29
'Mysterious Object Hurtling Towards Earth' is a 1966 Booster Rocket 31
China's Chang'e 5 Probe Lifts Off From Moon Carrying Lunar Samples 32
Drone Footage Shows the Shocking Collapse of the Arecibo Observatory 112
NASA Video Captures Decades of the Sun's Spitting Fury 29
Physicists Nail Down the 'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe 177
Elon Musk is Highly Confident SpaceX Will Land Humans on Mars by 2026 229
Australian Telescope Maps New Atlas of the Universe In Record Speed 41
China's Chang'e 5 Mission Lands on the Moon 32
For the First Time Scientists Detect Neutrinos Traced To CNO Cycle Inside the Sun 20
Duck! Meteor! Oh, Maybe Don't Bother - This Time... 49
Researchers Calculate Earth is 2,000 Light-years Closer to the Milky Way's Black Hole 27
The ESA Starts a New Commercial Sector in Space: Removing Space Debris 47
Amateur Astronomer Alberto Caballero Finds Possible Source of Wow! Signal 67
China Launches Ambitious Mission To Land On Moon and Return Samples To Earth 65
The Audacious Plan to Launch a Solar-Powered Rocket Into Interstellar Space 41
To Explain Away Dark Matter, Gravity Would Have To Be Really Weird 198
Are There Active Volcanoes on Mars? 29
Werner Herzog On Asteroids, Star Wars, and the 'Obscenity' of a City On Mars 152
SpaceX Begins a Day With Two Falcon 9 Launches, Seventh Flight of a Recycled Rocket 10
Astronomers Discover New 'Fossil Galaxy' Buried Deep Within the Milky Way 24
Rocket Lab Becomes Second Company After SpaceX To Launch and Land Orbital Rocket 65
Solar Power Stations in Space Could Be the Answer To Our Energy Needs 233
Human Error Blamed For European Vega Rocket Failure 139
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch Black After All 88
European Vega Rocket Fails for the Second Time During Launch in the Last Two Years 40
4 Astronauts Aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Successfully Dock With Space Station 67
SpaceX Launches a Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying a Crew Dragon Capsule With Four Astronauts 124
Scientists Find a New Way To Search for Habitable Exoplanets 11
Looking For Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe 42
Starlink Beta Testers Are Impressed With Its Speed 54
Scientists Discover Bizarre Hell Planet Where It Rains Rocks and Oceans Are Made of Lava 71
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star 17
We Finally Know What's Been Making Fast Radio Bursts 14
NASA Objects To New Mega-Constellation, Citing Risk of 'Catastrophic Collision' 39
How Many Alien Civilizations Are Out There? A New Galactic Survey Holds a Clue. 93
How a Tiny Bit of Lacquer Grounded New Falcon 9 Rockets For a Month 21
Scientists Discover New Molecule, Possible Basis For Life, on Saturn's Moon Titan 19
SpaceX Will 'Make Its Own Laws On Mars' 293
Humans Have Been Living In Space For 20 Years Straight 56
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of Asteroid Bennu 24
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
New Nuclear Engine Concept Could Help Realize 3-Month Trips To Mars 131
Vint Cerf Is Working on an Internet for Outer Space 86
NASA's Probe Sampled Too Much From Asteroid Bennu and Now It's Leaking 45
Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical For GPS, Seen In Distant Stars 48
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Will Land On an Asteroid To Bring Home Rocks and Dust 23
Voyager Spacecraft Detect An Increase In the Density of Space Outside the Solar System 88
NASA Asks: What Would You Pack For a Trip to the Moon? 111
A Chicken Nugget Was Just Launched Into Space 36
A Dead Soviet Satellite and An Old Rocket Booster Could Collide In Space Tonight 82
NASA Loads 14 Companies With $370M For 'Tipping Point' Technologies 11
Telescopes Record Last Moments of Star Devoured By a Black Hole 40
Looking for Life? Researchers Identify 24 Exoplanets Even More Habitable Than Earth 62
An Earlier Universe Existed Before the Big Bang, and Can Still Be Observed today, Says Nobel Winner 116
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race 48
Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists For Work On Black Holes 56
Black Hole Photo Makes Einstein's Theory '500 Times Harder to Beat' 31
NASA Tests New $23 Million Titanium Space Toilet 49
Liquid Water on Mars? New Research Indicates Buried 'Lakes' 42
Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter 85
Astronomers Discover Possible 60s-Era Moon Rocket Booster Heading Back To Earth 66
The US Space Force Will Use Blockchain-Based Data Protection - and SpaceX's Reusable Rockets 43
NASA Launches New $23 Million Toilet to International Space Station 33
The Only Black Hole We've Ever Seen Has a Shadow That Wobbles 22
Chitin Could Be Used To Build Tools and Habitats On Mars, Study Finds 84
ISS Successfully Dodges 'Unknown Piece of Space Debris' 37
Earth-Size 'Pi Planet' Rocks a 3.14-Day Orbit 40
New Reality Show's Prize? 10 Days on the International Space Station 24
European Spacecraft Flying Past Venus Will Now Look for Signs of Life 15
Russian Announces Plan to Independently Explore Venus 36
NASA To Film an Estee Lauder Ad In Space As the ISS Opens For Business 53
Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa 17
ESA Awards $153 Million Contract For Its First Planetary Defense Mission 20
Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests 55
The Case for Life on Venus 97
Is There a Way to Darken Satellites for Astronomers? 106
Remembering Laika: 'Space Dogs' Documentary Explores Moscow Through a Stray's Eyes 18
Is Planet Nine a Black Hole? 105
New Hubble Observations Suggest Gap in Current Dark Matter Models 27
First 3,200 Megapixel Images Taken By World's Largest Digital Camera 59
Astronomers Find No Signs of Alien Tech After Scanning Over 10 Million Stars 153
Elon Musk Says Settlers Will Likely Die on Mars 214
SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Starship Prototype 81
China Launches Experimental Spaceplane 31
Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space 42
California Wildfires Destroy Hidden Hill Observatory 32
SpaceX Launches 12th Starlink Mission, Says Users Getting 100Mbps Downloads 91
NASA Tests a Booster That Produces 3 Million Pounds of Thrust 120
SpaceX Starting On 'Super Heavy' Rocket Booster To Power Mars Trip 94
For U.S. Space Force Ranks, William Shatner Endorses 'Starfleet Amendment' 207
Report: Massive US Spy Satellite May 'Hoover Up' Cellphone Calls 85
Bacteria From Earth Can Survive In Space and Could Endure the Trip To Mars, Says Study 65
Breakthrough AI Identifies 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data 44
SpaceX Now Valued at $46 Billion, Making It America's Top 'Unicorn' 79
Slick New 'Dream Chaser' Space Plane Set For Launch in 2021 38
Volunteers Spot Almost 100 Cold Brown Dwarfs Near Our Sun 36
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won't Be Able to Answer 80
Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction On Earth, Study Shows 30
A Car-Sized Asteroid Made the Closest Earth Flyby a Space Rock Has Ever Survived 56
An Unusual Meteorite, More Valuable Than Gold, May Hold Life's Building Blocks 20
Astronomers Spy a Milky Way-like Galaxy In the Very Early Universe 18
Leaked SpaceX Starlink Speedtests Reveal Download Speeds of 11 to 60Mbps 84
Amazon Satellites Add To Astronomers' Worries About the Night Sky 110
How Will the Universe End? Scientists Say They May Have an Answer 153
What Mars Would Look Like If Its Surface Was Covered With Water 91
Planet Ceres Is An 'Ocean World' With Sea Water Beneath Surface, Mission Finds 90
For Space Junk Cleanup, DragRacer Satellite Will Test 'Terminator Tape' This Fall 26
Could Spacecraft of the Future Be Powered By 'Lattice Confinement' Nuclear Fusion? 62
NASA Ditching 'Insensitive' Nicknames for Cosmic Objects 184
CNO Neutrinos From the Sun Are Finally Detected 32
Scientists Spot Space Junk With Lasers In Broad Daylight 37
SpaceX's Starship SN5 Testbed Successfully Makes 150m Controlled Flight 58
SpaceX Asks FCC To Allow 5 Times More Internet Terminals for Starlink's Satellites 150
NASA Astronauts Fire Deorbiting Burn. Watch Splashdown Back to Earth 69
Gravity Error Detected? 276
NASA Astronauts Are Undocking SpaceX's Crew Dragon from ISS, Returning to Earth 29
Spacecraft Made From Ultra Thin Foam Could Reach Proxima Centauri In 185 Years 155
Amazon To Invest $10 Billion In Space-Based Internet System 52
SpaceX Completes Static Fire of Starship Prototype, Will Hop Next 32
FCC Approves Amazon's Internet-From-Space Kuiper Constellation of 3,236 Satellites 61
NASA Launches New Rover, Perseverance, To Look For Ancient Life on Red Planet 42
Airbus To Build 'First Interplanetary Cargo Ship' 43
Rock From Mars Heads Home After 600,000 Year Odyssey Across Space 38
The North Poles of Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Probed by NASA Spacecraft 17
'Solar Orbiter' Delivers Closest Pictures Ever Taken of the Sun 13
Neural Network-Enhanced 'Cognitive Radio' Communicates With ISS 29
SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Accused of 'Photo-Bombing' Shots of Comet Neowise 112
China's Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Rockets Away From Earth 36
UK and US Say Russia Fired a Satellite Weapon in Space 83
Scientists Unveil Largest 3D Map of the Universe Ever 47
Venus, Long-Thought Dormant, Shows Signs of Volcanic Activity 37
UAE Successfully Launches Hope Probe, Arab World's First Mission To Mars 102
The United Arab Emirates Successfully Launch a Spacecraft to Mars 60
James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Yet Again 55
Newly-Discovered Comet Neowise: Now Visible at Dawn and Dusk 23
Is Our Solar System's Ninth Planet Actually a Primordial Black Hole? 165
Will Astronauts Ever Visit Gas Giants Like Jupiter? 132
Moon's Metal-Rich Craters Challenge Popular Theories About Its Origin 68
Rocket Lab Loses Seven Satellites After 'Something Went Wrong' 33
Starting Soon: A Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 18
Halfway Through ISS Mission, NASA Astronauts Anticipate Their Ride Back to Earth 21
Core of a Gas Planet Seen For the First Time 47
A Massive Star Has Seemingly Vanished from Space With No Explanation 161
Asteroid Impact, Not Volcanic Activity, Killed the Dinosaurs, Study Finds 62
One Lucky Space Tourist Could Get a Shot At An ISS Spacewalk In 2023 37
Gravitational Waves Reveal Lightest Black Hole Ever Observed 44
Mars Is About To Have Its 'Wright Brothers Moment' 80
Space Startup Promises 30-Mile-High Balloon Rides to the 'Edge of Space' 61
Are Planets With Oceans Common In the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find 55
Scientists Say Most Likely Number of Contactable Alien Civilizations Is 36 181
The ISS Is Getting a New Toilet This Year 92
'Looking at an Alien Sky': New Horizons Probe Sees Stars From a New View 56
SpaceX vs. Space Shuttle: NASA's Falcon 9 Astronauts Compare the Differences 61
James Webb Space Telescope Will 'Absolutely' Not Launch In March 56
Titan Is Migrating Away From Saturn 100 Times Faster Than Previously Predicted 42
Astronomers Have Found a New Planet Like Earth Orbiting a Star Like the Sun 82
The European Space Agency is Funding Its Own Reusable Rocket 112
How SpaceX Uses Linux, Chromium, C++ and Open Source Libraries 69
Why Did It Take NASA a Decade To Get Back Into Space? 150
The Galaxy's Brightest Explosions Go Nuclear With an Unexpected Trigger 29
SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Satellites and Achieves a Reusability Record For a Falcon 9 Booster 63
Class of Stellar Explosions Found To Be Galactic Producers of Lithium 13
Watch NASA Astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docking with ISS 55
Tunguska Meteor That Blasted Millions of Trees in 1908 Might Have Returned To Space 82
Watch Live: SpaceX Launches NASA Astronauts to ISS 116
SpaceX's Starship SN4 Launch Vehicle Prototype Explodes After Static Engine Fire Test 78
Watch SpaceX Launch People To Space For the First Time Live [Updated] 85
Mysterious Radio Bursts Reveal Missing Matter in Cosmos 40
Supercomputer Simulates the Impact of the Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs 61
Virgin Orbit's First Orbital Test Flight Cut Short After Rocket Released from Carrier Aircraft 40
NASA and SpaceX Confirm SpaceX's First Ever Astronaut Launch is a 'Go' 112
After 19 Years, the ISS Receives Its Very Last NASA Science Rack 19
As Russia Stalks US Satellites, a Space Arms Race May Be Heating Up 123
ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk In Early Universe 33
It's Official: SpaceX Is a 'Go' To Launch NASA Astronauts On Crew Dragon Spaceship 20
How Do Astronauts Escape When a Space Launch Goes Wrong? 60
Astronomers Spot Potential First Evidence of New Planet Being Born 11
Mystery of Lava-Like Flows On Mars Solved By Scientists 23
Can Nuclear Fallout Make It Rain? 24
MIT Professor Proposes Fleet of Pre-Positioned Satellites Ready To Orbit Interstellar Comets 21
Trump, Unveiling Space Force Flag, Touts What He Calls New 'Super-Duper Missile' 218
Comet Swan Is Visible To the Naked Eye and Passing By Earth Tonight 27
Large Chunks of a Chinese Rocket Missed NYC By About 15 Minutes 185
Scientists Get Their Best-Ever Look At Jupiter's Atmosphere and Storms 13
High-Resolution Telescope Images Solve a Mystery About Jupiter's Great Red Spot 34
US Space Force Releases First Recruitment Video, Acknowledges Netflix Comedy 'Space Force' 45
SpaceX's Starship SN4 Prototype Fires Rocket Engine For First Time 19
Closest Black Hole To Earth Found 'Hiding in Plain Sight' 38
Trump Administration Drafting 'Artemis Accords' Pact For Moon Mining 133
Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk's SpaceX 131
Why The Navy's UFO Videos Aren't Showing Aliens 167
NASA Names Companies To Develop Human Landers For Artemis Moon Missions 39
SpaceX and NASA Break Down What Their Historic First Astronaut Mission Will Look Like 19
Is Space-Time Quantized Or Analog? 148
Hubble Captures Breakup of Comet ATLAS 20
USGS Releases First Complete Geologic Map of the Moon 23
SpaceX Starship Prototype Finally Aces Pressure Test 46
U.S. Space Force's First Weapon Is a Satellite Jammer 114
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Took 'Key Steps' To Reduce Starlink Satellites' Brightness 50
Archivists Uncover Earliest Evidence of a Person Being Killed By a Meteorite 21
NASA's Plan To Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab 20
SpaceX Successfully Launches 60 More Starlink Satellites as it Continues Towards 2020 Service Debut 98
For the First Time, a Robot Repaired a Satellite in Orbit 38
Russia's Soyuz Rocket Production On Hold Due To Coronavirus 20
NASA, SpaceX Set Date For Historic Launch of Astronauts To ISS 34
ESO Finds Star's Orbit Around Black Hole Confirms Einstein's General Relativity 46
Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden In Early NASA Kepler Data 71
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Believed To Be 'Active Asteroid' 15
Remembering Apollo 13 at 50 34
First-Ever Photo Proof of Powerful Jet Emerging From Colliding Galaxies 18
NASA Astronaut's Estranged Wife Charged With Lying About Space Crime Allegation 114
Trump Signs Executive Order To Support Moon Mining, Tap Asteroid Resources 218
Could Radioactivity Make Otherwise Frozen Planets Habitable? 26
SpaceX Loses Its Third Starship Prototype During a Cryogenic Test 58
Modern Meteorology Was Born 60 Years Ago Today 19
Was Magellan's Voyage Riskier Than Sending Humans to Mars? 153
After 5 Years of Construction, 'Space Fence' Finally Declared Operational 37
Is Uranus Losing Its Atmosphere? 49
Astronomers Have Finally Found the Edge of the Milky Way 24
Physicists Disagree Over New Dark Matter Claim 69
US Space Force Successfully Launches First Mission 76
Venezuela's Flagship Communications Satellite Out of Service and Tumbling 81
SpaceX Encounters First Launch Delay Due To Coronavirus 9
Star Wars: Tatooine Was Likely Orbiting In the Same Plane As Its Twin Suns 48
How 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing the ESA's Rocket Development 21

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