50 Best Rock Songs About Celestial Bodies

Best Rock Songs Connected to the Stars and Planets

There’s something strange that happens when music reaches for the sky. Not the polished soundtrack to a stargazing date, but the raw noise that sneaks in when a band tries to wrestle with the scale of it all. Guitars layered heavy, vocals cracking, a rhythm that feels too big to stay earthbound. A track doesn’t have to be literally tied to astronomy to spark that feeling, it can lean on imagery or drift into a metaphor that lands the same way. The night sky becomes a stage, and the song hangs there like a planet you can’t ignore.

It’s not a perfect fit every time. Some songs were probably written with zero thought about orbits or galaxies, yet they end up circling the theme anyway. Maybe it’s a lyric that mentions the moon in passing, maybe it’s the way a chorus feels like floating untethered. That loose connection is part of what makes them work, carrying the same restless pull you find in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that bend toward the sky without really planning to. These tracks hold space for wonder without forcing the mood to feel profound, which is why they slip so easily into playlists where the vibe matters more than the literal topic.

The energy shifts too. One song rips forward like a meteor, another drifts slow like it’s lost in orbit, and both make sense back-to-back. These aren’t museum pieces for science class, they’re loud, messy, sometimes oddly tender moments that hook into cosmic language without overexplaining it. They capture a weird middle place between grounded and infinite, the kind of tracks that can soundtrack late nights, road trips, or even an Instagram reel with stars flickering in the background. Here are the best rock songs connected to celestial bodies.

1. 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie

2. 'Rocket Man' by Elton John

3. 'Starman' by David Bowie

4. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden

5. 'Across the Universe' by The Beatles

6. 'Walking on the Moon' by The Police

7. 'Supermassive Black Hole' by Muse

8. 'Drops of Jupiter' by Train

9. 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath

10. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles

11. 'Starlight' by Muse

12. 'Under the Milky Way' by The Church

13. 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay

14. 'Moondance' by Van Morrison

15. 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

16. 'Man on the Moon' by R.E.M.

17. 'Space Truckin'' by Deep Purple

18. 'Space Station #5' by Montrose

19. 'Star Roving' by Slowdive

20. 'Cosmic Girl' by Jamiroquai

21. 'Another Girl, Another Planet' by The Only Ones

22. 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' by Klaatu

23. '2000 Light Years from Home' by The Rolling Stones

24. 'Astronomy Domine' by Pink Floyd

25. 'Star-Spangled Banner' by Jimi Hendrix

26. 'Outa-Space' by Billy Preston

27. 'Mr. Spaceman' by The Byrds

28. 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' by Pink Floyd

29. 'Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage' by Rush

30. 'Harvest Moon' by Neil Young

31. 'The Final Countdown' by Europe

32. 'Space Cowboy' by Steve Miller Band

33. 'Life on Mars?' by David Bowie

34. 'Telstar' by The Tornados

35. 'Venus' by Shocking Blue

36. 'The Sun' by Parov Stelar

37. 'Spaceman' by The Killers

38. 'Planet Earth' by Duran Duran

39. 'Black Moon' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

40. 'Hole in the Sky' by Black Sabbath

41. 'Satellite of Love' by Lou Reed

42. 'Sister Moon' by Sting

43. 'Astronomy' by Blue Öyster Cult

44. 'Shining Star' by Earth, Wind & Fire

45. 'Solar Fire' by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

46. 'Space Lord' by Monster Magnet

47. 'Sisters of the Moon' by Fleetwood Mac

48. 'The Sun Always Shines on T.V.' by a-ha

49. 'I Don't Want to Live on the Moon' by Ernie

50. 'Total Eclipse' by Klaus Nomi