Space Stories for 2022

'If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who Decides What We Do Next?' 172
SpaceX Caps '22 With Record-Setting 61st Falcon 9 Launch 24
NASA Mulls SpaceX Backup Plan For Crew of Russia's Leaky Soyuz Ship 61
Every Planet In the Solar System Will Be Visible Tonight 28
SpaceX Launches 54 Upgraded Starlink Internet Satellites; Completes 60th Mission of the Year 74
AI Has Changed the Way We Explore Our Solar System 12
Rocket Lab's First Mission From Virginia Delayed Until 2023 3
China Maps Out Plans to Put Astronauts on the Moon - and on Mars 56
Soyuz Spacecraft Docked To ISS Springs Coolant Leak 23
Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System 17
Japanese Billionaire Unveils the 8 Artists He'll Fly To the Moon On SpaceX's Starship dearMoon Flight 76
Work Begins in Western Australia on World's Most Powerful Radio Telescopes 11
Astronomers Say a New, Huge Satellite Is As Bright As the Brightest Stars 83
An Ancient Asteroid Impact May Have Caused a Megatsunami on Mars 16
Scientists Build 'Baby' Wormhole 117
Two Minerals Never Before Been Seen On Earth Found Inside 17-Ton Meteorite 14
Chinese Astronauts Board Space Station In Historic Mission 38
China Launches Astronauts To Newly Completed Space Station 90
Japanese Researchers Faked Data In Spaceflight Simulation 41
Scientists Say Webb Telescope's New Exoplanet Data is 'a Game Changer' 14
SpaceX Launches Tomato Seeds, Other Supplies to Space Station 28
ESA Names World's First Disabled Astronaut 46
Scroll Through the Universe With a New Interactive Map 15
Rocket Launch Thrusts India Deeper Into Space Exploration Race 9
James Webb Telescope Reveals Celestial Hourglass Formed By Embryonic Star 16
World's Largest Telescope Array Is Almost Ready To Stare Straight Into the Sun 31
After 908 Days in Orbit, US Military's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 25
Single Hubble Image Captured Supernova At Three Different Times 9
Debris From Destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger Found On Ocean Floor 36 Years On 31
China Scraps Expendable Long March 9 Rocket Plan In Favor of Reusable Version 35
A Total Lunar Eclipse is Happening Tuesday - and It Won't Happen Again For 3 Years 39
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard 21
China Criticized For 'Unplanned' Tumbling of Its Booster Rockets Back to Earth 99
Could 'Ghost Particle' Neutrinos Crashing Into Antarctica Change Astronomy Forever? 29
Boeing's Starliner Launch Pushed Back To April 2023 61
Virgin Galactic Delays Development of Ship Capable of Higher Flight Rate 26
Scientists Discover Huge 'Extragalactic Structure' in Hidden Region of Space 30
Black Holes Can Behave Like Quantum Particles 42
SpaceX Launches First Falcon Heavy Mission in Three Years 32
Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding In the Sun's Glare 37
China Launches Final Module To Complete Tiangong Space Station 18
Behavior of Star Clusters Challenges Newton's Laws of Gravity 90
New Discovery Could Reduce the Number of Potentially Habitable Planets 104
'Wobbling Black Hole' Most Extreme Example Ever Detected 21
NASA's Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation 29
SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad 59
Since Crew Dragon's Debut, SpaceX Has Flown More Astronauts Than Anyone 69
Scientists Baffled After a Black Hole 'Burps' a Star's Energy - Three Years Later 41
Europe Plans to Launch a Quantum Encryption Satellite for Ultrasecure Communications in 2024 32
Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe 136
SpaceX Announces a Second Private Flight To the Moon Aboard Starship 72
SpaceX Competitor Lynk Testing 5G Cellphone Service From Space 49
Stoke Space Aims To Build Rapidly Reusable Rocket With a Completely Novel Design 62
William Shatner: My Trip To Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness' 91
Space Billboards Could Cost $65 Million and Still Turn a Profit 118
European Observatory NOEMA Reaches Full Capacity With Twelve Antennas 18
Crew Dragon Launches Safely, Carrying First Russian From US Soil In 20 Years 39
Milky Way's Graveyard of Dead Stars Found 44
Florida's Space Coast On Track After Ian, Set For 3 Launches In 3 Days 11
Firefly Launches Alpha Rocket To Orbit 18
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands For the Last Time 27
NASA and SpaceX Are Studying a Hubble Telescope Boost, Adding 15 To 20 Years of Life 51
NASA Spacecraft Buzzes Jupiter Moon Europa, Closest in Years 23
NASA's DART Spacecraft Hits Target Asteroid in First Planetary Defense Test 105
Experts Call For Trip To Venus Before Crewed Mission To Mars 125
NASA's Dart Probe To Smash Into Asteroid in First Earth Defence Test 25
New Binary Pulsar Detected With CHIME 7
Alien-Hunting Astronomer Says There May Be a Second Interstellar Object On Earth In New Study 29
Water Found In Asteroid Dust May Offer Clues To Origins of Life On Earth 29
Maarten Schmidt, First Astronomer to Identify a Quasar, Dies at 92 11
James Webb Telescope Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings In Decades 81
A Gnarly New Theory About Saturn's Rings 25
Apple's Satellite-Based 'Emergency SOS' Prompts Speculation on Future Plans 34
Nanoracks Cut a Piece of Metal In Space For the First Time 17
NASA Probe Ready To Slam Into An Asteroid This Month 25
A 26-Year-Old Inventor Is Trying To Put Mirrors In Space To Generate Solar Power At Night 158
Bezos Rocket Crashes After Liftoff, Only Experiments Aboard 81
Scientists Found Genetic Mutations In Every Astronaut Blood Sample They Studied 46
NASA Working To Repair Fuel Leak On Moon Rocket, Plans To Launch Artemis Mission Later This Month 37
A New Explanation For the Reddish North Pole of Pluto's Moon Charon 5
Problems Delay Launch of NASA's SLS Rocket - Again 78
Frank Drake, Astronomer Famed For Contributions To SETI, Has Died 20
The Ashes of Four 'Star Trek' Actors Will Be Carried Into Deep Space 65
Neal Stephenson Thinks Rockets are an Overhyped Technology 220
Carbon Dioxide Detected Around Alien World For First Time 24
NASA Captures 'Actual Sound' In Space 57
James Webb Telescope Captures Surreal Images of Jupiter's Auroras 31
Has the Webb Telescope Disproved the Big Bang Theory? 273
Europe Is Seriously Considering a Major Investment In Space-Based Solar Power 166
Rocket Lab Will Self-Fund a Mission To Search For Life In the Clouds of Venus 32
Impact Crater May Be Dinosaur Killer's Baby Cousin 21
Redwire To Launch First Commercial Space Greenhouse in 2023 12
Plasma Reactors Could Create Oxygen On Mars 54
Russia Unveils Model of Proposed Space Station After Leaving ISS 108
Are Space Scientists Ready For Starship - the Biggest Rocket Ever? 88
India's Rocket Fails To Put Satellites In Right Orbit In Debut Launch 23
As Satellites and Space Junk Proliferate, US to Revise Rules 46
'I Landed a (Model) Rocket Like SpaceX. It Took 7 Years' 33
A Russian Military Satellite Appears to Be Stalking a New US Spy Satellite 61
French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo 123
FCC Votes To Boost Manufacturing in Space 17
Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years Ago Detected For the First Time 18
Tons of Chinese Rocket Debris Have Crashed into the Indian Ocean 52
A Large Chunk of Rocket Space Debris Landed In Australia 36
Nokia, AST SpaceMobile Join Forces For Broadband From Space 29
Russia Tells NASA Space Station Pullout Less Imminent Than Indicated Earlier 48
NASA Is Planning To Find Aliens Using Spacetime Warped Around the Sun 182
Rocket Debris From China Space Station Mission To Crash Land -- And No One Knows Where 44
'We Still Need Hubble': Why NASA's Revolutionary Space Telescope Isn't Dead Yet 41
America's Defense Department Creates a New Office for Tracking and Analyzing UFOs 43
Micrometeoroid Noticeably Damaged One of Webb Telescope's Mirror Segments 87
SpaceX Breaks Annual Launch Record 14
NASA Sets Tentative Launch Dates For Debut of Its Massive New Rocket 73
Two Massive Jupiter-Sized Exoplanets Discovered With TESS 19
First Dormant Black Hole Found Outside the Milky Way 35
Was the Pentagon's UFO Study Led by a Crackpot? 121
Astronomers Detect a Radio 'Heartbeat' Billions of Light-Years from Earth 39
Russia Ousts Boisterous Space Chief Dmitry Rogozin 54
Japan Wants To Bring Artificial Gravity To the Moon 104
First Image From the James Webb Space Telescope 94
Asteroid Bennu Nearly Swallowed Up NASA's Sampling Spacecraft 13
Even the Webb Telescope's Engineering Test Images Manage To Wow 49
Webb Telescope Will Look for Signs of Life Way Out There 56
NASA's SLS Mega-Rocket Could Launch Within 8 Weeks 70
Whose Rocket Hit the Moon? 51
MIT Proposes Brazil-Sized Fleet of 'Space Bubbles' To Cool the Earth 139
Satellites are Sinking Faster Toward Earth. Scientists Blame Solar Wind 30
Rogue Rocket's Moon Crash Site Spotted By NASA Probe 16
The Mars Express Spacecraft Is Finally Getting a Windows 98 Upgrade 40
Five Planets Take Center Stage as They Align in the Night Sky 31
NASA Starts Shutting Down Voyager After 50 Years 83
South Korea Launches Satellite With Its Own Rocket for the First Time 22
Scientists Find Remains of Cannibalized Baby Planets In Jupiter's Cloud-Covered Belly 66
Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Mysterious Star Cluster with Same-Generation Stars 10
Can a Seattle Startup Launch a Fusion Reactor Into Space? 129
SpaceX Makes History: Launches and Lands Three Rockets in 36 Hours 160
A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues. 32
Europe's Major New Rocket, the Ariane 6, Is Delayed Again 71
China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations 186
SpaceX Wins Environmental Approval for Launch of Mars Rocket 94
Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected 'Starquakes' 29
Low-cost Astra Rocket Suffers Upper Stage Failure. Two NASA Satellites Lost 64
MoonDAO Will Pick Two of the Next Blue Origin Astronauts With the Help of NFTs 24
Astronomers May Have Detected a 'Dark' Free-Floating Black Hole 55
Mars Rover Peseverance Has Picked up a Hitchhiking Rock 25
James Webb Telescope Hit By Large Micrometeoroid 50
How NASA's DAVINCI Mission Will Plunge Through Venus's Hellish Atmosphere 69
Remembering the Transit of Venus on Its 10th Anniversary 27
Cringley Predicts Apple is About to Create a Satellite-Based IoT Business 48
NASA Buys Remaining Space Station Crew Flights From SpaceX 44
Rare Sight For Amateur Astronomers as Five Planets Align 24
Astronomers Unexpectedly Capture 'Great Dimming' of Supergiant Star Betelgeuse 21
NASA Praises Boeing Starliner's 'Picture Perfect' Return from ISS Visit 125
Famous 'Alien' Wow! Signal May Have Come From Distant, Sunlike Star 36
Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth 5
New Calculations of Solar Spectrum Resolve Decade-Long Controversy About the Sun's Chemical Composition 18
Hubble's 'Magnum Opus': a 30-Year Analysis of the Universe's Expansion 16
Mitsubishi Develops Technology for 3D Printing in Outer Space 9
Boeing's Starliner Docks with International Space Station. Hatch Opening Now 59
Two Military Satellites Just Communicated With Each Other Using Space Lasers 51
Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High Into Earth's Atmosphere 62
Virgin Orbit Is Assembling a Fleet of Boeing 747 Jets To Launch More Rockets Into Space 30
The Milky Way's Black Hole Comes to Light 65
NASA Releases Ridiculously Sharp Webb Space Telescope Images 96
NASA Releases New Black Hole Visualizations - and Sonifications - as Astronomers Study X-Ray Echoes 5
SpaceX Brings 4 Astronauts Home With Midnight Splashdown 17
SpaceX Engineer Says NASA Should Plan For Starship's 'Significant' Capability 126
FAA Delays Environmental Review of SpaceX's Starship Yet Another Month, To May31 66
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Completely Aligned, Fully Focused 31
Rocket Lab Successfully Captures Falling Electron Rocket With a Helicopter 35
Webb Telescope Captures Five Different, Dazzling Views of a Nearby Galaxy 29
All of the Bases In DNA, RNA Have Now Been Found In Meteorites 69
NASA's Space Telecoms Network May Soon Be Outsourced 23
China Hopes To Redirect a Nearby Asteroid Within the Next Four Years 20
The Case for Exploring the Planet Uranus 72
Longer Than Expected: All-Private SpaceX Crew Leaving ISS After Week-Long Delay 21
Potential For Shallow Liquid Water On Jupiter's Moon Europa, Study Suggests 36
NASA Sent Hologram Doctors To ISS To Visit Astronauts 44
A Helicopter Will Try To Catch a Rocket Booster In Midair 104
Scientists Hope To Broadcast DNA and Earth's Location For Curious Aliens 134
Chinese Astronauts Return To Earth After Spending Six Months in Space 42
Ultra-Rare Black Hole Ancestor Detected at the Dawn of the Universe 17
US Space Command Releases Decades of Secret Military Data, Confirms Interstellar Meteor in 2014 13
Hubble Telescope Confirms Largest Comet Nuclear Ever Seen 33
NASA Will Test SpinLaunch's Ability To Fling Satellites Into Orbit 85
Neptune Has Been Slowly Cooling For 15 Years When It Should Be Warming 18
Russia Is Jamming GPS Satellite Signals In Ukraine, US Space Force Says 136
Putin Says Russia Will Resume Lunar Program 190
First All-Private Astronaut Team Arrives At the ISS 25
Researchers Home In On Possible 'Day Zero' For Antikythera Mechanism 32
Is Dark Matter Just Old Gravitons from Other Dimensions? 104
Thriving Space Industry Raises Safety Issues for Low-Earth Orbit 40
Sunspot Activity On the Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions 64
French Firm Raises $2 Million To Sail On Sunlight 40
Astronomers Discover Farthest Object In the Known Universe 32
SpaceX Poised To Send First Private Crew To ISS For Axiom Space 35
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object On Earth, Scientists Say 53
Amazon Signs Multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper Launch Contracts 54
Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Caught In the Act of Being Born 16
Former SpaceX Rocket Scientist Starts 'In-Space Propulsion' Company 25
Two More Successful Rocket Launches from Satellite Launch-Service Providers 7
NASA Says Russia is Still 'Moving Toward' Extending the Space Station Through 2030 29
Hubble Sees Most Distant Star Ever, 28 Billion Light-Years Away 124
Astrophotographer Spots Spacewalking Astronauts From the Ground 35
Pluto's Peaks Are Ice Volcanoes, Scientists Conclude 31
SpaceX Ending Production of Flagship Crew Capsule 38
NASA Wants Another Moon Lander For Artemis Astronauts, Not Just SpaceX's Starship 113
NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets 58
UK-backed OneWeb To Use Rival SpaceX Rockets After Russian Ban 40
Could Dark Matter Be Explained by an Anti-Universe Running Backwards in Time? 104
NASA's Megarocket, the Space Launch System, Rolls Out To Its Launchpad 83
NASA's Webb Space Telescope Achieves Near-Perfect Focus 46
Ex-NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Says He's Ending Feud With Russian Space Chief 37
A Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe Shapes Dark Matter In Galaxies, Study Finds 31
Asteroid Spotted Just Two Hours Before Impacting Earth 98
Watch an Asteroid Flying By Earth 18
Coronal Mass Ejection Reaches Earth On Sunday Night 32
Why Werner Herzog Thinks Human Space Colonization 'Will Inevitably Fail' 179
No, Russia Has Not Threatened To Leave An American Astronaut Behind In Space 73
NASA Is Opening a Vacuum-Sealed Sample It Took From the Moon 50 Years Ago 28
Scott Kelly Returns His 'For Merit In Space Exploration' Medal To Russia 135
Two Giant Black Holes Colliding Sent Ripples Through Space 24
The US Space Force Plans To Start Patrolling the Area Around the Moon 68
SpaceX Launches 47 Starlink Satellites, Lands Rocket Making 11th Flight 31
Russia Halts Deliveries of Rocket Engines To US 186
Black Hole That Was Closest Yet Found Does Not Exist, Say Scientists in U-turn 20
Death Spiral: a Black Hole Spins On Its Side - 'Completely Unexpected' 17
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Service is Now Active Over Ukraine 105
Are We Prepared for Contamination Between Worlds? 54
Analyzing the Unusual Failure of Astra's Small, Frugal Rocket Launch Vehicle 15
NASA's Hubble Spots a Heavy Metal Jupiter Where It Rains Liquid Gems 32
How the Webb Telescope Will Explore Interstellar Objects 18
The Sun Has Erupted Non-Stop All Month, and There Are More Giant Flares Coming 68
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Captures First Visible Light Images of Venus' Surface 24
Virgin Galactic Is Looking For 1,000 People To Buy Its $450,000 Spaceflight Tickets 70
First Hints of a Planet Orbiting in a White Dwarf's Habitable Zone 15
Why Musk's Biggest Space Gamble Is Freaking Out His Competitors 289
China, Not SpaceX, May Be Source of Rocket Part Crashing Into Moon 30
First Images From NASA's James Webb Space Telescope 22
Astra Launch of NASA-Sponsored Cubesats Fails 21
A Third World May Be Orbiting Around Our Closest Neighboring Star 34
A Geomagnetic Storm May Have Effectively Destroyed 40 SpaceX Starlink Satellites 78
Astronomers Find First Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift In the Milky Way 53
The Falcon 9 May Now Be the Safest Rocket Ever Launched 116
Astronomers Find a New Asteroid Sharing Earth's Orbit 21
Why Is a Harvard Astrophysicist Working With UFO Buffs? 94
Chinese Satellite Observed Grappling Another and Pulling It Out of Orbit 161
US Space Force Wants to Fund 'Space Junk'-Cleaning Startups 41
Water On Mars May Have Flowed For a Billion Years Longer Than Thought 27
SpaceX Planning To Launch Up To 52 Missions In 2022 39

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