Space Stories for 2023

Navajo Nation President Asks NASA to Delay Moon Launch Over Possible Human Remains 203
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75
'Behold - the Best Space Images of 2023' 5
Is It Possible to Beam Solar Power From Outer Space? 130
SpaceX Wows With a Double Header of Final 2023 Rocket Launches 43
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won't Be the Last 60
US Commits To Landing an International Astronaut On the Moon 49
Blue Origin's Suborbital Rocket Flies For First Time In 15 Months 31
SETI Scientists Report Discovery of More Fast Radio Bursts 19
Orbit Fab Wants to Create 'Gas Stations' in Space for Satellites 53
'Life May Have Everything It Needs to Exist on Saturn's Moon Enceladus' 27
Asteroid Pieces Brought to Earth May Offer a Clue to Life's Origin 26
Jeff Bezos Says Blue Origin Needs To Be 'Much Faster' 127
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can't Phone Home 34
Are Tiny Black Holes Hiding Within Giant Stars? 43
Scientists Discover Nuclear Fission Amongst the Stars 31
Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear In Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence 33
SpaceX Will Help US Space Force Launch Its Secretive X-37B Space Plane 36
The Extremely Large Telescope Will Transform Astronomy 35
'Wobbly Spacetime' May Help Resolve Contradictory Physics Theories 90
India Reveals That It Has Returned Lunar Spacecraft To Earth Orbit 18
Amazon Taps SpaceX For Kuiper Launch 12
A Strong Solar Storm Is Inbound With a Full Halo CME 46
A Star With Six Planets That Orbit Perfectly in Sync 30
A NASA Spacecraft Could Carry Your Name to Jupiter in 2024 51
The Most Powerful Cosmic Ray Since the Oh-My-God Particle Puzzles Scientists 63
NASA Chooses Blue Origin's Rocket To Launch Smallsat Mission To Mars 71
Deep Space Astronauts May Be Prone To Erectile Dysfunction, Study Finds 85
Earth Receives Laser-Beamed Message From 10 Million Miles Away 31
SpaceX's Starship Reaches Outer Space Before Intentional Detonation 125
FAA Clears SpaceX To Launch Second Starship Flight 19
Planet Where It Rains Sand Revealed By Nasa Telescope 22
Airbus Introduces 'Detumbler' Device To Address Satellite Tumbling In Low Earth Orbit 23
A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022 53
Japan To Create $6.6 Billion Fund To Develop Outer Space Industry 22
Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8, Dies At 95 21
SpaceX Will Launch the Space Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane On Falcon Heavy 31
Euclid Telescope: First Images Revealed From 'Dark Universe' Mission 10
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow 155
Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars 20
A SpaceX 'Falcon 9' Booster Rocket Has Launched 18 Times Successfully, a New Record 86
NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid 18
NASA Open To Extending ISS Beyond 2030 21
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead At 87 28
New Agreement Enables US Launches From Australian Spaceports 24
Breakthrough Kidney Stone Procedure Makes It Possible For Astronauts To Travel To Mars 70
Mars Has a Surprise Layer of Molten Rock Inside 35
Can Humans Have Babies In Space? SpaceBorn United Wants To Find Out 105
JWST's Disconnect With Cosmology Models Linked to 'Bursty Star Formations' 18
Next Year, SpaceX Aims To Average One Launch Every 2.5 Days 27
A Simple Streetlight Hack Could Protect Astronomy From Urban Light Pollution 160
India Plans To Land Astronauts On the Moon In 2040 86
Blue Origin's New Spacecraft Can Build Projects In Space 38
Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid? 44
NASA Unveils First Glimpse of Space Rock Collected From Asteroid 17
US Space Force Pauses Generative AI Use Based on Security Concerns 20
How Edwin Hubble Expanded the Universe 100 Years Ago 26
Scientists Discover the Highest Energy Gamma-Rays Ever From a Pulsar 12
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky 41
James Webb Space Telescope's First Spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 Planet 28
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs 25
NASA Opens OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid-Sample Canister 21
First Evidence of Spinning Black Hole Detected by Scientists 20
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin To Replace CEO Bob Smith With Amazon Exec Dave Limp 27
After Seven Years, Sample Collected From Asteroid Finally Returns to Earth 34
NASA's Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa 26
SpaceX Rocket Launches Starlink Satellites On Record-Breaking 17th Flight 46
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth 66
The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term For It: 'Noctalgia' 122
Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System 86
Firefly Aerospace Sets Launch Speed Record For US Space Force 28
Space Industry Is Growing Faster Than Its Workforce, Analysts Say 69
CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has To Be Made Like Microchips 24
Asteroid Behaving Unexpectedly After NASA's Deliberate DART Crash 36
Starship Is Stacked and Ready To Make Its Second Launch Attempt 89
How a Billion-Dollar Satellite Risks Upending the Space Insurance Industry 86
India Seeks To Top Its Moon Landing with Spacecraft To Study Sun 18
Hackers Shut Down 2 of the World's Most Advanced Telescopes 36
NASA To Demonstrate Laser Communications From Space Station 40
Watch SpaceX Deliver Four Astronauts to the International Space Station 41
Perseverance Mars Rover Spies Big Sunspot Rotating Toward Earth 15
SpaceX Test-Fires Booster For Second Starship Launch 65
Target of European Space Debris Removal Mission Is Itself Hit by Space Debris 21
SpaceX's Bandwagon Program Is a Big Deal 21
US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites 57
China Launches First Geosynchronous Orbit Radar Satellite 38
Could Supermassive Black Holes Explain Our Universe's Gravitational-Wave 'Hum'? 19
How to Turn an Asteroid into a Space Habitat (Using Self-Replicating Spider Robots) 65
Planetary Defense Test Deflected An Asteroid But Unleashed a Boulder Swarm 63
Russia's Luna 25 Mission Launches To the Moon 60
Virgin Galactic Successfully Flies Tourists To Space For First Time 48
Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down 118
Gamma Ray Detection Marks Highest Energy Light From the Sun 34
SpaceX Studies Use of Starship as a Space Station 18
NASA Finally Restores Communication with Voyager 2 After Two Weeks 47
India Says Space Junk Found In Australia Is Theirs 28
Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid 19
Biden Reverses Trump Decision, Keeps Space Command In Colorado 199
Search for Voyager 2 After Nasa Accidentally Sends Wrong Command 76
Euclid Space Telescope Sends Back First Images of the Cosmos 11
Webb Telescope Spots Water (Vapor) in a Nearby Planetary System 25
Boeing's Starliner Program Reaches Staggering $1.1 Billion in Losses 78
The US Government is Taking a Serious Step Toward Space-Based Nuclear Propulsion 80
A Nearly 20-Year Ban on Human Spaceflight Regulations Set To Expire 25
How Astronomers Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades 29
Two-Faced Star With Helium and Hydrogen Sides Baffles Astronomers 64
Something In Space Has Been Lighting Up Every 20 Minutes Since 1988 86
Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to Date - and It's Small 26
Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon's Far Side 46
Age of Universe Nearly Twice As Old As Previously Believed 87
Congress Prepares To Continue Throwing Money At NASA's Space Launch System 59
Researchers Discover Stardust Sprinkled On a Nearby Asteroid 11
India Launches a Lander and Rover To Explore the Moon's South Pole 12
China Beats Rivals To Successfully Launch First Methane-Liquid Rocket 102
NASA Decides Not To Launch Two Already-Built Asteroid Probes 19
NASA Expands Developers' Contracts For Its Next-Gen Spacesuits 5
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Engine Explodes During Testing 79
SpaceX Makes Record-Breaking 16th Flight With a Falcon 9 Booster 65
Harvard Professor Believes He's Found Fragments of Alien Technology 138
Blue Origin Is Planning To Open New Launch Sites Outside the US 31
Quasar 'Clocks' Show the Universe Was Five Times Slower Soon After the Big Bang 57
Europe's Venerable Ariane 5 Rocket Faces a Bittersweet Ending on Tuesday 75
What's the Mission of the US Space Force? 148
Could a Solar Superstorm Someday Trigger an 'Internet Apocalypse'? 107
SpaceX Launches ESA's 'Euclid' Space Telescope to Study Dark Energy's Effect on the Universe 19
Scientists Find 'Ghost Particles' Spewing From Our Milky Way Galaxy 16
Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal 53
Virgin Galactic Launches Crucial First Commercial Spaceflight 30
Planet That Shouldn't Exist Found 49
New Video Shows a Flyby of the Planet Mercury - with AI-Assisted Music 14
Has Avi Loeb Found the Remains of an Interstellar Object? 50
Webb Telescope Is Powerful Enough To See a Variety of Biosignatures In Exoplanets, Argues New Paper 39
Scientists Hope Euclid Telescope Will Reveal Mysteries of Dark Matter 44
How The JWST Could Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets 25
Researchers Argue Earth Formed Much Faster Than Believed, Suggest More Planets Could Have Water 17
A Startup Tries Making Medicine in Space 21
Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus Harbors Essential Elements For Life 29
Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93 135
'He's About to Graduate College and Join SpaceX as an Engineer. He's 14.' 91
Adventure in Space: ISS Astronauts Install Fifth Roll-out Solar Blanket to Boost Power 25
NASA Researchers Think (Microbial) Life Could Survive on the Moon 19
Parker Solar Probe Discovers Source of Solar Wind 31
China Wants To Launch a Moon-Orbiting Telescope Array As Soon As 2026 32
Long Space Missions Take a Toll On Astronaut Brains, Study Finds 54
Artificial Photosynthesis Could Be The Secret to Colonizing Space 23
Satellite Beams Solar Power Down To Earth, In First-of-a-Kind Demonstration 75
Boeing Delays Starliner Launch Again After Discovering Two Serious Problems 66
Hubble Network Wants To Connect a Billion Devices With Space-Based Bluetooth Network 60
SpaceX Mission Carrying Former NASA Astronaut, Three Paying Customers Returns From Space Station 19
China Launches Shenzhou-16 Mission To Chinese Space Station 14
Japan Will Try to Beam Solar Power from Space by 2025 111
A Quake on Mars Showed Its Crust is Thicker Than Earth's 15
JWST Discovers a Supermassive Black Hole is 'Far Larger Than Expected' 28
Gravitational-Wave Detector LIGO Is Back 10
Why North and South Korea Have Big Ambitions in Space: An 'Unblinking Eye' 13
'Alien' Signal Beamed To Earth From Mars In SETI Test 46
Virgin Orbit Shuts Down After Bankruptcy Sales 13
SpaceX Launches 10th Crewed Mission, Third Fully Commercial Flight 20
How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon 52
Astronomers Report Brightest-Ever, Three-Year Cosmic Explosion 13
Scientists Discover 62 More Moons Orbiting Saturn, Bringing Total to 145 Moons 33
SpaceX Says It Will Launch First Commercial Space Station By Mid-2025 88
Arianespace CEO: Europe Won't Have Reusable Rockets For Another Decade 123
Could We Build a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Using Jupiter for Raw Materials? 102
In a First, Astronomers Spot a Star Swallowing a Planet 10
As Many as Four Moons Around Uranus May Have Oceans Below the Surface 43
James Webb Space Telescope Detects Water Vapor Around Alien Planet 25
Droids for Space? Startup Plans Satellites With Robotic Arms For Repairs and Collecting Space Junk 19
Key Radar Antenna Stuck On Europe's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft 39
NASA Power Tweak Extends Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer 47
Japan's Ispace Assumes Failure in Bid To Make First Commercial Moon Landing 23
Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works 97
SpaceX Launches Debut Flight of Starship Rocket System 177
Solar Sails Could Guide Interplanetary Travel, Says New Study 47
Juice Mission Blasts Off To Jupiter To Look for Signs of Life 14
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids For the First Time 17
Scientists Unveil New and Improved 'Skinny Donut' Black Hole Image 18
Jupiter Mission Set To Explore Icy Worlds 8
Physicists Discover That Gravity Can Create Light 109
Mysterious Dark Matter Mapped In Finest Detail Yet 34
NASA Reveals What Made an Entire Starlink Satellite Fleet Go Down 47
Speedy Black Hole in Intergalactic Space Could be Creating a Trail of Stars 46
See Uranus' Rings in Stunning New Image from the Webb Telescope 32
The Search for Alien Life Moves to Icy Moons 57
SpaceX Prepares For Rehearsal, Test Flight of Starship Rocket 35
China Invites Venezuela To Join Moon Base Project 98
Branson's Virgin Orbit Files For Bankruptcy After Launch Failure Squeezed Finances 41
US Military Prepares for Space Warfare As Potential Threats Grow From China 52
Space Scientists Reveal Brightest Gamma Explosion Ever 37
Scientists Erupt At NASA Gutting Funding For Crucial Venus Mission 61
Ultramassive Black Hole Discovered To Be 33 Billion Times More Massive Than the Sun 46
Virgin Orbit Fails To Secure Funding, Will Cease Operations 28
Lockheed Martin Is Building a Moon-To-Earth Satellite Communications Network 31
Fast Radio Burst Linked With Gravitational Waves For the First Time 6
Black Holes May Be Swallowing Invisible Matter That Slows the Movement of Stars 82
Glass Beads On Moon's Surface May Hold Billions of Tons of Water, Scientists Say 28
Starlink Rival OneWeb Poised for Global Coverage After Weekend Launch 40
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Probably Moved Strangely Due To Gas, Study Says 43
Relativity Space Launches World's First 3D-Printed Rocket On Historic Test Flight 13
DART Mission Reveals Asteroid Dimorphos Contains No Water 11
RNA Molecule Uracil Found In Asteroid Ryugu Samples 34
Russia's Space Program Is In Big Trouble 126
Propellantless System For Satellites Will Get Tested In Space 299
Mysterious Streaks of Light Seen in the Sky Friday in California 40
How College Students Built a Satellite With AA Batteries and a $20 Microprocessor 55
Small Near-Earth Asteroid Surfaces Have Few Precious Metals, Study Finds 44
Active Volcano On Venus Shows It's a Living Planet 21
A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past 200
Amazon Reveals Its Project Kuiper Satellite Internet Dishes, Targets 2024 Launch 41
'Relativity Space' Aborts Second Launch Attempt of Its 3D-Printed Rocket 13
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a '1 In 560 Chance' of Hitting Earth In 2046 67
After Nearly a Decade in Development, Japan's New Rocket Fails in Debut 32
Cosmonaut Stranded on Mir in 1991 Now Heads Rescue Mission to ISS 27
UK Now Seen As 'Toxic' For Satellite Launches, MPs Told 72
Is United Launch Alliance About To Be Sold? 57
SpaceX Launch of Six Astronauts to the ISS is Scrubbed 45
Webb Telescope's Discovery of Massive Early Galaxies Still Defies Prior Understanding of Universe 75
Texas Is Planning To Make a Huge Public Investment In Space 103
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Hurtling Through Space 42
No, a Piece of the Sun Didn't Just 'Break Off' 63
USAF Might Be Shooting Down Hobbyist Balloons 136
These Companies Are Making Solar Cells Out of Fake Moon Dirt 23
Second Soyuz Springs a Leak, Astronauts Stuck On ISS For An Extra Month 47
Blue Origin Makes a Big Lunar Announcement Without Any Fanfare 53
A Mysterious Ring Surrounding Mini-Planet 'Quaoar' Puzzles Astronomers 42
SpaceX Successfully Test Fires Starship Booster 98
Why Jupiter's Tally of Moons Keeps Going Up and Up 30
Researchers Want To Launch Dust From the Moon To Help Cool Earth 122
'Less Clumpy' Universe May Suggest Existence of Mysterious Forces 41
After a Failure 4 Months Ago, the New Shepard Spacecraft Remains In Limbo 35
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight 19
SpaceX Completes First Stacked Starship Fueling Test 58
Exotic Green Comet Not Seen Since Stone Age Returns To Skies Above Earth 50
Mars Helicopter 'Ingenuity' Completes Its 40th Flight on Mars 20
Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Most Distant Galaxy Yet 18
Rodney Brooks Reviews 5-Year-Old Predictions, Makes New Ones on Crypto, Metaverse, Robots, AI 48
93-Year-Old Retired Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Marries His 'Longtime Love' 52
Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch - the First of Its Five Missions This Year 31
Virgin Orbit's Sixth Launch Became a 'Fireball' on Monday 12
We Exist Inside a Giant Space Bubble, And Scientists Have Finally Mapped It 39
Russia To Rescue ISS Crew On Backup Rocket After Capsule Leak 27
Britain's Groundbreaking Satellite Launch Ends in Failure 100
UK Conducts First Satellite Orbital Space Launch 24
Space Station Astronauts Build Objects that Couldn't Exist on Earth 26
Giant Plasma Cloud Bursts From the Sun 39
South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views 38
NASA Apollo Astronaut Walt Cunningham Has Died At Age 90 22
Comet To Make First, And Likely Only, Appearance in Recorded History 37

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