Space Stories for 2024

NASA Officially Greenlights $3.35 Billion Mission To Saturn's Moon Titan 70
Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth 54
Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion 77
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16
NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery 258
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
NASA Confirms That Debris From ISS Crashed Into Florida Home 57
AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes 315
Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
ESA Prepares To Create Solar Eclipses To Study the Sun 19
China Moving At 'Breathtaking Speed' In Final Frontier, Space Force Says 196
Sierra Space, Valued At $5.3 Billion, Eyes IPO To 'Accelerate the New Space Economy' 26
ULA Launches Final Delta Rocket After 64 Years 22
VCs Invest $90M in Varda Space Industries' Microgravity Drug Manufacturing 20
CNN Investigates 'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' 59
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months 58
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
New 3D Cosmic Map Raises Questions Over Future of Universe, Scientists Say 63
Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake? 90
Scientists Complete Construction of the Biggest Digital Camera Ever 29
Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida 135
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
Henrietta Leavitt, Cosmology Pioneer, Receives Belated Obituary 14
Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is Twice As Old As We Thought 243
Europe Turns To the Falcon 9 To Launch Its Navigation Satellites 93
What's Next for SpaceX's Starship? 104
Aging Voyager 1 Sends Back Response After 'Poke' Signal From Earth 30
Scientists Reveal Never-Before-Seen Map of the Milky Way's Central Engine 11
Giant Volcano Discovered On Mars 23
Southern Oregon Now Boasts World's Largest Dark Sky Sanctuary 20
SpaceX Celebrates Third Launch of Starship Rocket Despite Loss of Contact 70
FAA Grants License For SpaceX's Third Starship Launch 62
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
Conflicting Values For Hubble Constant Not Due To Measurement Error, Study Finds 64
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Was Avi Loeb Led to His 'Alien Debris' Meteor by the Sound of a Truck? 53
Astronomers Detect 'Waterworld With a Boiling Ocean' in Deep Space 25
Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark 80
China To Debut Large Reusable Rockets In 2025 and 2026 43
Blue Origin Targets 2025 For Cargo Lander's Inaugural Moon Trip, With Humans To Follow 19
Setback For Hopes of Life As NASA Says Less Oxygen On Jupiter Moon Than Thought 25
NASA Shutters $2B Satellite Refueling Project, Blames Contractor For Delays. 30
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
'Mathematically Perfect' Star System Being Investigated For Potential Alien Tech 71
5,000-Pound Satellite Successfully 'Deorbited' Wednesday 20
Astronomers Discover Universe's Brightest Object 43
To Combat Space Pollution, Japan Plans Launch of World's First Wooden Satellite 59
Scientists Discover Water On Surface of an Asteroid 24
India To Launch Android Into Space To Test Crewed Launch Capability 20
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
Harvard Astronomy Professor Thinks He Has New Evidence of Alien Spacecraft 95
Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time In Space 41
Space-based Research May Lead To Cancer 'Kill Switch' 22
Is the US Space Force Researching Space-Based Solar Power? 38
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
Space Shuttle Endeavor's Final 'Flight': Hoisted By Crane Tonight Into Future Site of a Museum 30
Hubble Spots Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet's Atmosphere 28
Astronomers Discover Giant Ancient Stars in Milky Way 25
Nearby Galaxy's Giant Black Hole Is Real, 'Shadow' Image Confirms 30
Ultra-Large Structure Discovered In Distant Space Challenges Cosmological Principle 60
James Webb Telescope Detects Earliest Known Black Hole 7
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA 114
Japan Startup Eyes Fusion Laser To Shoot Down Space Junk From Ground 48
Private US Moon Lander Now Headed For Earth, Might Burn Up In Atmosphere 41
New Paper on 'MOND' Argues That Gravity Changes At Very Low Accelerations 81
NASA Selects Bold Proposal To 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri With Tiny Probes 113
Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst 27
Moon Lander Problem Threatens Mission After Vulcan Rocket Makes Successful Debut 51
Neptune Is Much Less Blue Than Depictions 38
SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites 13
New Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape 16
India To Study Black Holes With First Satellite Launch After US 27