Space Stories for 2021

MIT Engineers Test an Idea For a New Hovering Rover 18
With Its Single 'Eye,' NASA's DART Returns First Images From Space 7
China Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station 283
What's Next After the International Space Station? 98
'A Christmas Gift for Humanity' - Cheers Erupt After Webb Telescope Completes Flawless Launch 56
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery of Why Comets Glow Green 13
Nasa's X-ray Boom Arm for Black Hole Studies Extends in Orbit 6
The Universe is Expanding Faster Than it Should Be 157
New System Would Let Us Know If Aliens Are Using Lasers to Communicate 83
At Long Last, the World's Most Powerful Space Telescope is Ready To Launch 104
Asteroid Sample Could Reveal Our Solar System's Origin Story 11
NASA Releases New Photos of Jupiter - and a Recording of Its Moon that Sounds Like R2-D2 23
Astronomers Nervously Counting Down to Christmas Eve Launch of $10B Webb Telescope 63
A Domestic Newspaper Warns of the Russian Space Program's 'Rapid Collapse' 76
New NASA Tool Helps Visualize Asteroids' Paths Through Solar System 4
NASA's New Sleeping Bags Could Prevent Eyeball 'Squashing' On the ISS 41
One Space Trip Emits a Lifetime's Worth of Carbon Footprint 201
FAA: No More Astronaut Wings For Future Commercial Space Tourists 44
NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online 11
Blue Origin Helps Humanity Set a New Record for Spaceflight 53
FAA Says Lack of Federal Whistleblower Protections Is 'Enormous Factor' Hindering Blue Origin Safety Review 24
New NASA Telescope Will Provide X-Ray Views of the Universe 15
This Massive Planet Shouldn't Exist 66
France To Mimic Musk With Own SpaceX-Style Launcher, Minister Says 184
Mysterious Galaxy Without Dark Matter Puzzles Astronomers 106
International Space Station Fired Its Thrusters Friday To Dodge More Space Debris 13
The Largest Comet We've Ever Seen Just Delivered a Curious Surprise 18
US Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General 171
Biden Administration Issues New Framework for Space Policy, With a Focus on Climate Change 31
3D Printer Using Living Ink Made of Microbes Could Print Healing Structures in Space 13
Watch NASA Crash a Spacecraft Into An Asteroid 38
An 'Incident' With the James Webb Space Telescope Has Occurred 149
'Gas Station in Space' - A New Proposal to Convert Space Junk Into Rocket Fuel 27
Harvard Astronomers Challenge Theory That 'Oumuamua Was a Nitrogen Iceberg 50
Visualizations Show the Extensive Cloud of Debris Russia's Anti-Satellite Test Created 77
Steve Wozniak's Startup Privateer Plans To Launch Hundreds of Satellites To Study Space Debris 42
Iodine-Powered Satellite Successfully Tested In Space For First Time 51
SpaceX Will 'Hopefully' Launch First Orbital Starship Flight In January 50
Jeff Bezos: Future Humans 'Will Visit the Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone' 191
NASA's Moon Landing Will Likely Be Delayed 'Several Years' Beyond 2024, Auditors Say 94
New Mission To Scour Our Interstellar Neighbourhood for Planets that Could Sustain Life 21
Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine 101
Russia May Have Just Shot Down Its Own Satellite, Creating a Huge Debris Cloud 176
William Shatner's Crewmate on Blue Origin Spaceflight Died Thursday in a Plane Crash 43
Near-Earth Asteroid is a Fragment From the Moon, Say Scientists 15
SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft Successfully Docks At ISS With Four Astronauts Onboard 39
Black Holes May Gain Mass From the Expansion of the Universe Itself 38
New Company Develops Vacuum-Sealed Centrifuge To Launch Satellites Into Orbit 200
Record Number of New Gravitational Waves Offers Game-changing Window Into Universe 44
Japan's Space Agency May Retrieve the First Samples From Mars - Sort of 19
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers 39
'The Problem with the Big Bang Theory' 141
Amazon Seeks US Regulators' Permission To Launch Another 4,538 Satellites 27
The United Nations Could Finally Create New Rules For Space 46
Australia Is Putting a Rover On the Moon In 2024 To Search For Water 30
SpaceX's Starlink Registers in India, Aims To Deploy 200,000 Active Terminals by 2022 25
NASA Proposes New Methodology for Communicating the Discovery of Alien Life 85
Juno Reveals Deep 3D Structure of Jupiter's Massive Storms 17
Scientists Discover New Phase of Water, Known as 'Superionic Ice,' Inside Planets 18
Sun Fires Off Major Solar Flare From Earth-Facing Sunspot 53
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Wants To Build a Tourism Space Station Nearly As Big As the ISS 88
Astronomers Spot First Possible Exoplanet Outside Our Galaxy 28
Astronomers Find Nascent Exploding Star, 'Rosetta Stone' of All Supernovas 27
Meet Starlab: Private Space Station Planned To Fly In 2027 38
Star's Strange Path Around Black Hole Proves Einstein Right -- Again 61
A Meteorite Crashed Through Somebody's Ceiling and Landed on Their Bed 197
China Launches 6-Month Crewed Mission, Cements Position as Global Space Power 69
Russian Spacecraft's Thrusters Tilt the International Space Station - Again 44
Astronomers Spot First Known Exoplanet To Survive Its Dying Star 12
Captain Kirk Safely Goes To Space and Back 108
Star Trek's William Shatner On His Plan To Boldly Go Into Space 118
New Studies Argue Distant Cosmic Gamma-Ray Explosion Was Actually Just Russian Space Junk 16
Astronaut Spots Rare and Ethereal 'Transient Luminous Event' From ISS 11
NASA's 'Armageddon'-style Asteroid Deflection Mission Takes Off Next Month 34
Russian Actress and Director To Start Making First Movie on Space Station 45
Europe's BepiColombo Spacecraft To Attempt Its First Swing Past Mercury Tonight 21
Blue Origin Has a Toxic Culture, Former and Current Employees Say 97
FAA Clears Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo For Flight After Probe Into July Incident 14
Blue Origin 'Gambled' With Its Moon Lander Pricing, NASA Says in Legal Documents 92
This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once 51
William Shatner's Going To Space On Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin 70
Jeff Bezos Says Traveling To Space Changed How He Thinks About Nature 94
NASA Reviews Private Space Station Proposals, Expects To Save Over $1 Billion Annually After ISS Retires 80
SpaceX's All-Tourist Crew Safely Splashes Back Down to Earth 112
New Type of Dark Energy Could Solve Universe Expansion Mystery 63
Amateur Astronomer Spots Possible New Impact Flash At Jupiter 32
SpaceX Launches First All-Tourist Crew Into Orbit 127
SpaceX Rocket To Take World's First All-Civilian Crew Into Orbit 47
Steve Wozniak Shares a Video About His New Space Startup 80
Strange, Repeating Radio Signal Near Center of Milky Way Has Scientists Stumped 120
Astronauts In Space Will Soon Resurrect An AI Robot Friend Called CIMON 17
Viruses May Exist 'Elsewhere In the Universe,' Warns Scientist 124
Passengers on SpaceX's All-Civilian Spaceflight Will Get a Huge Dome Window 27
First Rocket of Space Company Firefly Exploded During Its Launch 40
Astronomers Create 'Treasure Map' To Find Proposed Planet Nine 95
Virgin Galactic Flights Grounded After New Yorker Story On Branson Spaceflight 39
The Red Warning Light On Richard Branson's Space Flight 76
One-Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Eaten Their Planets 38
Russian Cosmonauts Find New Cracks In ISS Module 102
After 'Sideways' Launch, Space Startup Astra's Rocket Fails to Reach Orbit 60
Japan Successfully Tests Possible Deep-Space Rocket Technology 40
China Researching Challenges of Kilometer-Scale Ultra-large Spacecraft 98
Titan's Strange Chemical World Gets Simulated in Tiny Tubes 15
ISS Could Be Followed By Commercial Space Stations After 2030, NASA Says 93
US Space Command Is Now a 'Warfighting Force,' Needs Permanent Home 111
Hubble Captures a Stunning 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying The Depths of The Universe 29
Could a Black Hole Surrounded by Energy-Harvesters Really Power a Civilization? 77
China To Launch Uncrewed Cargo Ship To Tiangong Station 53
Scientists Locate Likely Origin For the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid 71
Saturn's Insides Are Sloshing Around 32
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Sues NASA, Escalating Its Fight for a Moon Lander Contract 117
Boeing Starliner Launch Delayed Again 38
Black Hole 'Burps' May Help Determine Their Size 10
Scientists Fine-Tune Odds of Asteroid Bennu Hitting Earth 49
SpaceX Is Buying Satellite Data Startup Swarm 28
CNN Explores 'How Space Force is Defending America' 117
Virgin Galactic Says Trips To Space Aboard Its Rocket Plane Will Start At $450,000 Per Seat 66
Musk: 'Dream Come True' To See Fully Stacked SpaceX Starship Rocket During Prep for Orbital Launch 61
Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes 76
Scientists Created a Quantum Crystal That Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor 58
Boeing Scrubs Launch of Starliner Crew Capsule To Space Station 60
2 Red Objects Found In the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn't Be There. 80
Rocket Lab Successfully Carries a US Military Satellite Into Orbit 20
ISS Briefly Loses Control After New Russian Module Misfires 56
First Detection of Light From Behind a Black Hole 20
Astronaut Watches Russian Space Station Module Fall From Space In Fiery Demise 25
Quake-Measuring Device on Mars Gets Detailed Look at Red Planet's Interior 10
Russia Encounters More Problems Sending Long-Delayed Module and Robotic Arm to Space Station 41
Virtual Comic-Con Includes Trailers For 'Blade Runner' Series, 'Dune' Movie - and NASA Panels 71
Oregon Congressman Proposes New Space Tourism Tax 155
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson Not Yet Astronauts, US Says 80
After Repair, Hubble Captures Images of 'Rarely Observed' Colliding Galaxies 21
Jeff Bezos On Critics of Billionaires Going To Space: 'They're Mostly Right' 238
Astronomers Push for Global Debate on Giant Satellite Swarms 98
Wally Funk And Three Crewmates Travel To Space And Back In Under 15 Minutes 150
Our Universe Might Be a Giant Three-Dimensional Donut 182
Blue Origin Auction Winner Backs Out, 18-Year-Old Flies Instead 98
China Secretively Launches Reusable Suborbital Vehicle for Space Transportation System 53
Exploding Stars May Have Assaulted Ancient Earth 24
To Catch Deep-Space Neutrinos, Astronomers Lay Traps In Greenland's Ice 25
'Gardened Zones' on Europa Could Be the Key to Finding Life, Study Says 22
How Many Atoms Are In the Observable Universe? 77
Branson Successfully Completes Historic First Flight To the Edge of Outer Space 180
Closer to a Space-Travel Future: Branson Prepares for Flight to Outer Space 31
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Passes Key Review Ahead of Fall Launch 25
Cluster Full of Black Holes May Be Spitting Out Stars 11
Kepler Telescope Glimpses Population of Free-Floating Planets 44
NASA Astronauts Used CRISPR Gene Editing Technology For the First Time in Space 9
Still-Troubled Hubble Space Telescope Once Snapped a Red, White, and Blue Image 12
Passenger Added To Jeff Bezos' Planned Spaceflight Would Be the Oldest Person In Space 44
Physicists Observationally Confirm Hawking's Black Hole Theorem For the First Time 53
Virgin Galactic To Launch Richard Branson Into Space On July 11 67
Virgin Orbit Sends Its First Commercial Satellites Into Space From Air-Launched Rocket 23
Glauconitic-Like Clay Found On Mars Suggests the Planet Once Had Habitable Conditions 17
No Hope For Life In Venus Clouds, But Maybe On Jupiter, Study Suggests 49
A Black Hole Feasted on a Neutron Star. 10 Days Later, It Happened Again. 26
There Could Be Many More Earth-Sized Planets Than Previously Thought 43
Virgin Galactic Okayed For Space Launches. Will Richard Branson Beat Jeff Bezos? 63
SpaceX Aims To Launch First Orbital Starship Flight in July 32
Radio Waves From Earth Have Reached Dozens of Stars 51
Scientists Might Have Spotted Tectonic Activity Inside Venus 11
NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope's 1980s Computer 111
Chinese Astronauts Reach New Space Station For Three-Month Mission 54
Aliens Wouldn't Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests 199
SpaceX Launches Advanced GPS Satellite for US Space Force, Sticks Rocket Landing at Sea 62
What Lies Beneath Jupiter's Pretty Clouds 56
Seat On Jeff Bezos' Space Trip Sells For $28 Million 61
Mouse Sperm Thrived Despite Six Years of Exposure To Space Radiation 35
Jeff Bezos Plans to Travel to Space on Blue Origin Flight 131
Will the US Air Force Use SpaceX's Starship for Speedy Cargo Deliveries? 133
NASA's Juno To Get a Close Look At Jupiter's Moon Ganymede 17
Why NASA Is Blasting Water Bears And Bobtail Squid Into Space 34
NASA Plans Blockbuster Return To Venus 61
Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station 38
World's Fastest AI Supercomputer Built from 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs 57
Space Plane Startup Promises One-Hour Rides to Anywhere on Earth at 9,000 MPH 91
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Calls Alien UFO Hype 'Foolishness' 156
New Dark Matter Map Reveals Cosmic Mystery 52
Space Station May Host Wave of TV Shows and Films 11
Will We Ever Understand Black Holes? 92
Study Reveals New Details On What Happened In the First Microsecond of Big Bang 109
Senate Preparing $10 Billion Bailout Fund For Jeff Bezos Space Firm 136
Virgin Galactic Completes Historic Third Successful Spaceflight with Rocket-powered Plane 29
Unexpected Gaseous Nickel Spewing From Second Known Interstellar Object 28
Improvements Finally Made in How We Name Asteroids 47
New Spaceport Announced In Nova Scotia - Operational In 2023 39
Two Satellites Lost after Rocket Lab's Second-Stage Booster Fails to Reach Orbit 25
Russia Races to Beat Tom Cruise and NASA With First Movie Filmed in Space 57
First Fully Civilian Flight To Space Station Moves Forward With NASA Contract 28
NASA Webb Telescope Undergoes Final Tests 47
Voyager 1 Detects Plasma 'Hum' 56
China's Out-of-Control Rocket Plunges Out of Orbit, Crashes Into Ocean 135
Astronomers Search For Answers To Origins of Interstellar Visitors Like 'Oumuamua 22
SpaceX Might Try To Fly the First Starship Prototype To Successfully Land a Second Time 65
Latest Search For Alien Civilizations Looked At 60 Million Stars, Detects No Signals 154
Huge Rocket Looks Set For Uncontrolled Reentry Following Chinese Space Station Launch 135
High-Energy Cosmic Ray Sources Get Mapped Out For the First Time 19
Will Virgin Galactic Ever Lift Off? 50
With a Rare Nighttime Splashdown, SpaceX Returns Four ISS Astronauts to Earth 38
Proxima Centauri Shoots Out Humongous Flare, with Big Implications for Alien Life 56
NASA Suspends SpaceX's $2.9 Billion Moon Lander Contract After Rivals Protest 88
A 22-Million-Year Journey From the Asteroid Belt To Botswana 7
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Will Soon Begin Selling Tickets For Rides On Its Space Tourism Rocket 70
'Forgotten Astronaut' Michael Collins Dies 46
China's 2024 Moon Probe Will Carry European Equipment 19
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight 29
Is SpaceX's Starlink Becoming the World's Dominant ISP? 162
Astronauts Successfully Delivered to the International Space Station by SpaceX 35
What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes? 155
SpaceX Successfully Launches Astronauts With a Re-Used Dragon Spacecraft for the First Time 63
How OneWeb Lied About a Near-Miss Collision With a SpaceX Satellite 63
NASA Begins First Attempt of 'Ingenuity' Helicopter's Flight on Mars 92
How OneWeb, SpaceX Satellites Dodged a Potential Collision in Orbit 40
Remembering Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space 97
Astronomers Detect a Bright-Blue Bridge of Stars, and It's About To Blow 28
String Theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching Out To Aliens is a Terrible Idea' 260
After Years of Setbacks, Researchers Finally Prepare Underwater Neutrino Telescope in Siberia 15
Fallen Debris from SpaceX Satellite Launch Crashes on a Farm 95
NASA Has a Plan To Punch An Asteroid With a Spaceship To Protect Earth 116
Geoengineering Researchers Have Halted Plans For a Balloon Launch in Sweden 13
SpaceX Is Adding a Glass Dome On Crew Dragon For 360 Views of Space 36
SpaceX Mars Rocket Prototype Explodes During Test Flight 90
What Does a $6,000 Bottle of Wine Taste Like After a Year In Space? 101
Detailed Image of a Black Hole's Magnetic Field May Explain How Matter Fuels Powerful Jets 8
Astronomer Makes Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel 68
The Myth of the Mutiny in Space 9
2.9-Ton Battery Pallet Becomes Largest Mass Ever Discharged From Space Station 59
Titan's Largest Crater Might Be the Perfect Cradle For Life 13
Some Dead Stars May Harbor Enough Uranium To Set Off a Thermonuclear Bomb 96
Complex Carbon-Based Molecules Found In Space 21
Microbes Unknown To Science Discovered On the International Space Station 48
Scientists Believe 'Oumuamua Was Chunk of Extrasolar Pluto-Like Planet 66
Scientists Propose Another 'Doomsday Vault' -- on the Moon 107
SpaceX Rocket Successfully Completes Record 9th Launch and Landing 48
Giant Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Hear Murmurs From Across Universe 31
Microscopic Wormholes Possible In Theory 52
Universe's Oldest Known Quasar Discovered 13 Billion Light-Years Away 38
Russia Partners With China for Lunar Space Station 118
Remembering Allan McDonald the Engineer Who Said 'No' To the Challenger Launch 79
Elon Musk Plans New City in Texas - Called Starbase and Led by 'The Doge' 158
'Gravity Portals' Could Morph Dark Matter Into Ordinary Matter 49
French Stargazers Hunt for Meteorite the Size of Apricot 20
Space Hurricane Seen Above Magnetic North Pole Was Raining Electrons 42
SpaceX Mars Prototype Rocket Nails Landing For the First Time, But Explodes On Pad 129
Japan Billionaire Seeks 'Crew' For Moon Trip 44
Rocket Lab Reveals Plans For Reusable Rocket With 8 Ton Payload 52
The Dream of Sending a Submarine Through the Methane Seas of Saturn's Moon Titan 51
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet 56
The First Black Hole Ever Discovered is More Massive Than We Thought 31
For the First Time Since 2008, European Space Agency is On the Hunt for New Astronauts 30

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