Muppets, I don’t want to live on the moon.
Two from The Tornados: “All the Stars in the Sky” and “Telstar” (the first “active” instead of “passive” communications satellite):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6NEqCbnBeITwo more from The Tornados: “Red Rocket” and “Life on Venus”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY6wLaS1Z8“Blue Star” by The Shadows
"Lullaby of the Stars" by The Tornados
Which brings to mind “Third Rock from the Sun” by Joe Diffie.
“California Stars” by Wilco
“Recovering the Satellites” by Counting Crows
“Bad Moon Rising” by CCR
“Landed” by Ben Folds includes the line “If you wrote me off/I’d understand it/'Cause I’ve been on some other planet” but that may not qualify.
“Venus and Mars” by Paul McCartney and Wings
“Space Oddity” by David Bowie
“Fly Me to the Moon” by Sinatra
“I Don’t Know a Thing About Love” by Conway Twitty
“Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett (Kind of prescient about Sally Ride, if you ask me…)
“Starship Troopers” by Yes
“Sirens of Titan” by Al Stewart
“Faith of the Heart” by Rod Stewart (just because of what it was used for)
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons - Pixies
*Andromeda *- Paul Weller
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
“What a Swell Party It Was,” from High Society:
Have you heard? It’s in the stars,
next July we collide with Mars!
Drops of Jupiter - Train [Drops of Jupiter Drops of Jupiter - Google Search](Drops of Jupiter Drops of Jupiter - Google Search)
Linda Goes To Mars - John Prine
Space Truckin’ - Deep Purple
“Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” by Klaatu (covered by the Carpenters).
“Major Tom (Coming Home)” by Peter Schilling.
“Saucerful of Secrets”, “Interstellar Overdrive”, “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”, by Pink Floyd.
“Spaceman” by Harry Nilsson.
“Rocket to Uranus” by the Vengaboys.
Good Morning, Starshine.-Oliver
The B-52’s - There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)
For a full album of technical death metal about stuff in space, there’s Obscura’s Cosmogenesis
They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas):
There’s also the excellent Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer:
“Rocket Man,” “interpreted” by William Shatner:
Cygnus X-1 by Rush.
Black Hole Sun
“So, like, a black hole is, like, this giant bunghole in outer space. It’s like, it sucks up the whole universe, and then it’s like, it grinds it up and sends it all to Hell or something.”
Several astronomy songs are in the playlist of “Space Songs” sung by Tom Glazer (where TMBG got their song from). Note: all are from “Ballads for the Age of Science” by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer.
Stardust, recorded by many, this one by Nat King Cole
“Red Planet” by Alvvays
“Emily” by Joanna Newsom:
That’s wrong. Probably intentionally so as a symptom of the growing distance between the singer and Emily, her real-life astrophysicist sister. Possibly just to troll Emily, who sang backup on the album.