50 Best Country Songs About Outer Space
Country Songs Connected to Outer Space
There’s something odd about country singers looking up and finding stories in the sky. The distance feels too wide, too quiet, yet the twang of a steel guitar can make it sound like home. Some tracks point directly at the stars, others slip in space as a stand-in for loneliness or wonder. Not every tune spells out rockets and galaxies, but they lean into the same headspace of drifting somewhere far from solid ground. That blurry overlap where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can all touch the same idea shows up here too, even when the boots are planted firmly on dirt.
The thing is, outer space in country music rarely shows up clean and scientific. It comes wrapped in love songs that wander into metaphors, or in playful numbers where the moon feels close enough to grab. Sometimes it’s dreamy and soft, other times it’s rowdy and larger than life. A track might sound like a honky-tonk anthem until you catch the reference to orbit or flying past planets, then suddenly it tilts into something stranger. It’s not about explaining the universe, it’s about slipping into its scale for a few minutes.
What makes these songs work is the way they hold that push and pull between familiar and far-off. The pedal steel bends into something weightless, the lyrics reach past the horizon, and the mood lands somewhere unsteady yet magnetic. Some are playful, some take the cosmic metaphor dead serious, but all of them fold the wide-open feel of country into a bigger sky. Here are the best country songs tied to outer space.
Top 10 Country Songs Inspired by Space
1. 'Outer Space' by Scott Stevens
2. 'Cowboy in the Sky' by Aaron Watson
3. 'A-11' by Johnny Paycheck
4. 'Mr. Spaceman' by The Byrds
5. 'Starlight' by Muse
6. 'Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)' by Elton John
7. 'Third Rock from the Sun' by Joe Diffie
8. 'I Am the Cosmos' by Starman Jr.
9. 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' by The Carpenters
10. 'Galaxy In The Country' by Bronnie
Best Celestial Country Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Stars Over Georgia' by Alan Jackson
12. 'Moon over the Mountain' by Wilf Carter
13. 'Dancing in the Sky' by Dani and Lizzy
14. 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' by Bill Monroe
15. 'To The Moon' by George Strait
16. 'Planet Texas' by Kenny Rogers
17. 'When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain' by Slim Whitman
18. 'Galaxy Song' by Clint Black
19. 'Dancin' with the Moonlight' by The Bellamy Brothers
20. 'Orbiting Jupiter' by Cheryl Wheeler and Janis Ian
Country Songs About Space Exploration #21 to 30
21. 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' by Chris de Burgh
22. 'Staring at the Sun' by The Offspring
23. 'Galileo' by Amy Grant
24. 'Man on the Moon' by R.E.M.
25. 'Here Comes the Sun' by George Harrison
26. 'Fly Me to the Moon' by Frank Sinatra
27. 'Counting Stars' by OneRepublic
28. 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay
29. 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie
30. 'Walking on the Moon' by The Police
Country Songs with a Cosmic Theme #31 to 40
31. 'Chasing the Moon' by Alan Jackson
32. 'Space Cowboy' by Steve Miller Band
33. 'The Big Bang' by Shooter Jennings
34. 'Rocket' by Def Leppard
35. 'Satellite Blues' by The White Stripes
36. 'Space' by Maren Morris
37. 'Shooting Star' by Bad Company
38. 'Halley's Comet' by Bill Haley
39. 'Starlight' by Muse
40. 'The Sun Always Shines on T.V.' by a-ha
Country Songs about the Night Sky #41 to 50
41. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
42. 'Silver Moon' by Michael Nesmith
43. 'Stars on the Water' by George Strait
44. 'Wandering Star' by The Kinks
45. 'Harvest Moon' by Neil Young
46. 'Blue-Eyed Sky' by Johnny Nash
47. 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash
48. 'Sundown' by Gordon Lightfoot
49. 'The World Is a Star' by The Monkees
50. 'Under the Milky Way' by The Church
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