#space masterlist

part one

dance upon the stars tonight (ao3) - floofdjh (echonoirs)

Summary: Dan and Phil are living in the hollow of Emerald Grove.

Ethereal (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil's reaction to Dan's mullet. One shot.

Full Moon (ao3) - WifiWonderland

Summary: The soft sway of the curtains covering the half opened window reveal a stream of light, caressing the carpet of their bedroom. Drawn to the tranquility, he opens the curtains to allow the radiant light to caress and envelop the dimly lit space.

Or/ a fic about a moment of peace and the power of the moon

hope you like the stars i stole for you (ao3) - twinphantasy

Summary: glow-in-the-dark stars

in a cosmic spray (ao3) - cityofphanchester

Summary: Dan likes to think that he’s got therapy down to a science, and yet sometimes he still finds himself here.

lady stardust (ao3) - Anonymous

Summary: Dan is in his first year of studying to become a lawyer (or something like that). One night, as he tries to have somewhat of a regular university life, he goes out with his new flatmates to a pub. There, he sees a Bowie-obsessed musician, who he immediately becomes obsessed with; Phil Lester.

look how (the stars) shine for you (ao3) - howell_slide

Summary: Two boys looking at the night sky together, 14 years apart.

Moon Fall (ao3) - imademon

Summary: Dan brought Phil's body to a local bench and talks to him as he waits for the world to end.

“You don’t have to hold it together. You know you’ve never had to put on a mask for me.” Again, Dan spoke in a northern accent.

Talking to the Moon (ao3) - uptownsteve

Summary: After a risque photoshoot, Phil wants to show Dan just how beautiful he is

The Death of Our Star (ao3) - queerbonafide

Summary: Dan Howell has always wanted to be an astronaut. As soon as he graduated, the strange message from the deep space has arrived. As one of the most talented pilots of his generations, he's been chosen to this two-people mission with the purpose of finding out who exactly tried to communicate with them. The second person was Phil Lester, an incredible scientist with PhD in theoretical physics and amazing specialist in black holes.

The moon, the sky, and the universes (ao3) - cemeterysociety

Summary: The sun was finally setting over London, giving the sky a soft pink and orange tinge. Phil was sat at the window in his and Dan's bedroom taking in the view, thinking about the delicate parts of life, even if he was just staring at pretty colours in the sky.

When the Moon Fell In Love With The Sun (ao3) - deputysean

Links last checked: February 25th, 2025

part one, part two, part three

a life of possibilities (ao3) - olfrogbait

Summary: Phil has something he needs to tell Dan.

astrophilia (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: (n.) ~ rare love and/of or obsession with planets. stars, and outer space.

An Intergalactic Kind of Love (ao3) - husbants

Summary: Phil has been acting terribly strange recently and Dan just can’t stop his emotions from running wild. (Or, alternatively, Phil is an alien and Dan doesn’t know.)

blanket of stars (ao3) - silentdescant

Summary: “That’s all for now, thank you.”

“I’ll be back to check on you in a bit.”

The whole script is so routine, Phil thinks his brain would short-circuit if either of them deviated from it. Dan walks away and Phil sinks lower in his seat, sighing into his blue drink.

“When are you gonna ask him out, man?” Martyn asks.

Call Me D-4-N (ao3) - Do_it_with_the_Howell_Lesters

Summary: Phil gets abducted by alien!dan

Comet me, Bro (ao3) - counting2fifteen

Summary: Dan and Phil are chosen to be the first colonizers of Mars. They’re the perfect choice: they get along incredibly well, they graduated training at the top of their class, and they’re both incredibly ready to spend years, perhaps an entire lifetime, as far away from humanity as possible.

The problem? Dan has a crush on Phil. And Phil doesn’t know.

Cross-pollination (ao3) - citizen101erased

Summary: Captain Turak from Vulcan did not mean to crash on earth with her crew. She especially did not mean to break all the rules and accidentally have first contact with two humans called Dan and Phil, while at a Muse concert. But it happened anyway, and maybe everyone gets out of this a little bit better than before.

In my arms I’ll catch you (ao3) - throughtheirsnoses (det395)

Summary: When their space pod unexpectedly loses power, Dan and Phil must prepare for the unknown as they start drifting toward an alien planet

In The Area (ao3) - Elleberquist6

Summary: Dan admired him for a moment, running a hand down his milky thigh before paying him the compliment he was due, “You’re a marvelous specimen of humanity.”

“You too,” Phil whispered, but then said louder, “I can tell that you’re a testament to your kind, too.”

Dan noticed where Phil’s eyes kept flicking and he laughed. “Want something?”

Phil’s cheeks got pink and he was having trouble maintaining eye contact, but he said, “Um, well, are you ready? To study me I mean…”

lead me into the light (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)

Summary: Dan and Phil are part of a crew of space explorers currently embarking on a dangerous mission to check out a supposedly lifeless planet far away from home.

let's laugh about it later (ao3) - olfrogbait

Summary: Dan thinks about what makes Phil Phil and also the importance of trust in a relationship.

Lightyear Groovin' (ao3) - Tarredion

Summary: In a galaxy far, far away, there’s an abundance of 70s clubs. On Krithoo, local party freak Dan Howell works as a waiter at an often overcrowded cantina, Virgo Volans. And maybe, just maybe, has an infatuation with the extraterrestrial dj frequenting their stage.

Mortified (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: phil can always rely on dan to answer his questions about earth. so when he finds a mysterious object underneath their bed, he goes to dan about it

not like the others (ao3) - lestered (clonetrobed)

Summary: Dan’s new boyfriend is just a bit eccentric, and more than a little secretive. But that doesn’t have to mean he’s hiding something big… right?

Space Oddity (ao3) - ditl_manchester

Summary: Dan has dreamed of going into space his entire life. When he finally does, there's a Ground Control agent that he just can't get out of his head, literally.

twelve thousand light years (ao3) - watergator

Summary: it's the end of the world and phil is one of the aliens that invade earth

when the trees lose their leaves (ao3) - cosmicglaize (strawberry_saturn)

Links Last Checked: February 25th, 2025

part one, part two

Abducted (ao3) - iihappydaysii

Summary: Dan gets abducted and probed by aliens.

Every Human But You (ao3) - CanDanAndPhilNot (BreanneKay)

Summary: Philistine, or as the humans would say, Phil, is failing quite miserably at befriending a human to satisfy his superior. That is until he meets an interesting human that catches his eye at the local library.

In His Eyes - dancingwithstarlightatmidnight

Summary: Dan and Winston were inseparable. When Winston jumps from a window to avoid capture, he is replaced with Phil; an alien possessing his body. With Winston’s memories and urges, Phil falls in love with Dan, but can Dan see past the fact that he’s in his boyfriend’s body?

Interstellar - huphilpuffs

Summary: Dan had always thought he was the moon. Phil Lester was definitely the sun.

Joined at the hip (ao3) - TheDalmatian

Summary: Dan and Phil are secretly aliens from another planet and they came down and they have to stay together because they're symbiotes and they have to live off of each other.

Not If You Were the Last Guy in the World (Reupload) (ao3) - dangirlphillie

Summary: Dan and Phil are brothers who hate each other when disaster strikes. Aliens have begun a take over of the planet and when the brothers are forced to rely on each other to survive, secrets come out and lines are crossed. Is this just lust, madness, or something more.

Of The Stars (ao3) - quarterleigh

Summary: Phil is an alien who desperately wants to meet his soulmate.

On These Euphoric Nights (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: By luck one night, Phil Lester finds a boy that belongs with the stars.

Orbit My Heart (ao3) - wekingsandprettythings

Summary: Phil Lester has always had an obsession with space. From a young age he loved looking at stars and imagining what life would be like outside of his planet. Now at age 27, accompanied by a PhD in Astrophysics, Phil's dream is to find life on Jupiter's moon Europa. With some special help from Dan Howell, the best Computer Science Engineer NASA has ever seen, will Phil find what he's looking for in both space and in his heart?

Parallel Universes (ao3) - Star4545

Summary: Dan Howell is a writer, but no amount of imagination could have prepared him for what he was going to experience. He didn't know how exactly it happened. It was a kind of fluke thing. That's the only way to explain it. An out of this universe fluke.

The Galaxy in Your Body and the Earth in Your Touch (ao3) - VoringPhan

Summary: Spaceboy!Dan loves coming to the pond to stare at the stars in the sky. Plantboy!Phil loves coming to the same pond to explore the nature. One day, the sky collides with the earth.

The Dreams That You Dare To Dream - queenofallcorgis

Summary: Phil’s parents are fostering alien refugees. Dan moves in and he shuts everyone out.

When I Run (Will You Chase After Me?) - phanofstars

Summary: Dan escapes from the megacorporation that he’s contracted to but plans go astray and he ends up leaving his partner Phil behind, who gets tasked to catch him in his run across the solar system.

Written in the Stars - chocolatesaucelester

Links Last Checked: February 25th, 2025

part one, part three

A Heart Without Color (ao3) - PewDiePie

Summary: Somewhere, not too far across the Milky Way Galaxy is a small planet called 'Planet White'. Planet White is made up of these creatures similar to humans, called 'Monochromians'. The difference between these creatures and humans is that monochromians only see in black and white, and they do not know how to love; their hearts are colorless, which prevents them from seeing color.

They think color is bad, so love is banned.

But when one young male monochromian, Dan, has the feeling like he's missing something - and wanting to know if it's love he could possibly be missing - runs away from his home planet and accidentally lands on earth, what will Dan do when he meets a young human boy, and Dan feels like the human could fulfil Dan's missing emotion, and in turn, color Dan's heart?

All The Stars In The Sky - phanimist

Summary: dan’s always loved space, but now that he’s finally up there he feels increasingly empty. he calls phil back home to make him feel better.

Andromeda - howellesterfics

Summary: Dan doesn’t know what the most stressful part of this month has been: the crush he has on a coworker, the looming dread of midterms, or the alien that crashed into his backyard in a heap of metal and smoke. Probably the alien, to be fair.

Bring Me Flowers - Astro (ao3) - tylerskye

Summary: In which Dan is in space, Phil is not, and it’s been a while since Dan has smelt a rose.

Conspire to Ignite - botanistlester

Summary: Virtuo and Nefaris have been in a war for hundreds of years, bringing death and sorrow to their people. After the Nefarians reign an attack on Virtuo, Phil is captured and brought to an unfamiliar planet where he is tortured for information. He gets assigned a prison guard named Dan, a cold and indifferent Nefarian who is prideful of his planet and always does as he’s told. Phil takes everything that comes to him without complaint, not knowing that his actions are slowly cracking down Dan’s hard exterior.

Galaxies' whispers (ao3) - croissantbleu

Summary: Phil is an astronaut, Dan is his boyfriend and his “earth buddy”, and his mission is to make sure he’s good and safe, and space is unpredictable.

How Do You Feel - ominousdan

Summary: Phil gets abducted by a beautiful alien who just wants to learn about human emotions.

I Am Phil Lester (ao3) - Lauren_is_a_moron

Summary: Phil wakes up with a throbbing pain in his neck and no memory, except his identity. He’s tied to a boy with chestnut brown hair with a voice he quickly falls in love with. But something’s wrong with the boy’s eyes.

Ignite the fire of a thousand suns (ao3) - TheOrangeAurora

Summary: A transition point in the universe, it became one for his existence too. Dan, a traveller of the universe, is forced to head back to where he came from, but perhaps the forces somewhere beyond had a plan for him that he had never expected.

Never Fade Away (ao3) - parentaladvisorybullshitcontent

Summary: “Come on, just because he’s in space doesn’t make him cooler than you. I mean, technically we’re all in space. He’s just…in a different bit of space.”

“It’s nothing to do with anything like that. I just –“ Dan pauses, trying to think of a way to phrase it. “It’s stupid to even think of him like that when I’ve never even met him, you know? Like – I have no idea who he is.”

In which Phil's an astronaut alone on Mars and Dan's a lowly tech down at Ground Control who can't get him out of his head.

Other Worldly (ao3) - domniall

Summary: Every human has a purpose. Every extraterrestrial has a mission. Phil's didn't include fluffy hair and rosy cheeks, but he can make room.

Perihelion (ao3) - fleurdelester

Summary: the one where Dan wants to study the stars and Phil wants to be king of the universe.

Set Me Ablaze, Don’t Let Me Drown (ao3) - TheOrangeAurora

Summary: Two years after returning to Adrailia, Dan's life has changed and he doesn't belong. Daily yearning mixes with fear and exhaustion and he wants out. But is there anywhere left for him? And how can he get there?

Stardust (wattpad) - foreverhome-

Summary: In which Dan is an astronaut and Phil works in mission control.

Stargazing (ao3) - amczingphil

Summary: Dan has been floating about the International Space Station for about two months when he gets the first phone call from Phil, the newest member of mission control, and somehow a quick conversation helps Dan feel at ease and becomes the first of many.

It's just a shame that there's 400km between them and Dan won't be coming home for another seven months.

The Surest Sign of Intelligent Life (ao3) - abriata

Summary: Dan had honestly hoped that if he ever made contact with a brand new species of alien life, it would be something interesting. Now he's hoping it will stop pushing all the buttons and trying to blow them both up.

Where the Skyline Splits (ao3) - amczingphil

Summary: Becoming an astronaut was all Dan had ever wanted, so hearing that he had made the cut to go on the next mission to the International Space Station was life changing; everything was finally coming together.

Links Last Checked: August 4th, 2024

Again (ao3) - silver_drip loki/tony M, 91k

Summary: When Loki invaded Midgard he did not expect to meet another god.

A Storm over Xela (ao3) - cakeisnotpie clint/phil, melinda/jasper, maria/steve M, 31k

Summary: Phil Coulson, heir to the throne, just wants three days before he enters into negotiations for the marriage that will bring stability to the galaxy. His royal cousins, Jasper Sitwell and Maria Hill, just want nothing to go wrong with the hare-brained plan of Phil's to switch places. Melinda May, Initiate Prime, just wants to ensure that her people can live in peace. Steve Rogers, Captain of the Guard, just wants no one to get hurt under his watch. And Clint Barton, spy and security expert, just wants to be wrong about his suspicions.

None of them are going to get what they want ... but they might get what they need.

An unabashed romance novel set in outer space with spaceships, pirates, and lots of squeezing in tiny spaces together. All the pairings get their own POVs.

Bend Around the Wind (ao3) - Scyllaya loki/tony E, 403k

Summary: A few months after the battle of New York the God Loki appears back on Stark Tower under chaotic circumstances. This time however he is on the run. Tony Stark gets caught up in the crossfire and is taken along with the Aesir. Can the two of them ever make truce in order to get away? And even if they do, how does one escape from such a dark corner of the universe, when they are so very far away from the Nine Realms, that not even Loki knows the way back home. But first, they need to survive.

Catch a Falling Star (ao3) - tsukinofaerii steve/tony E, 42k

Summary: When Tony was sixteen, he got to meet his hero, Captain Steve Rogers, the Empire's not-literally-golden boy from the Continuity Wars. When he was twenty-seven, the aforementioned Captain turned Pirate picked him up at the outer edges of space. It would have been a good time to appreciate the abundant nudity that came from spending too much time with space colonists, but Tony had bigger worries than even Rogers' amazing hip-to-shoulder ratio. Something was sending the star-encircling computers that power the galaxy into a tailspin, and it was going to take a lot more than luck and skill to clean the mess up.

Free Floating In Space (ao3) - vassalady steve/tony E, 40k

Summary: Tony runs a small salvaging business in the backwater territory of Outer Centaurus. When scavenging a long abandoned space station leads to an unexpected find, it begins a long journey for Tony, Steve, and the rest of the Iron Bird crew as they stand on the edge of war.

Great Unknown. (ao3) - ClaraxBarton bucky/clint, steve/natasha T, 3k

Summary: Smugglers and dragons and karaoke and space. Oh my.

That's it. That's the summary. Enjoy or suffer at your will.

North Of Gravity (Head Up In The Stratosphere) (ao3) - geckoholic clint/kate T, 4k

Summary: The Hawkeyes pretend to be married. In space. Because aliens, and also Natasha.

Problems in Relativity (ao3) - Muccamukk steve/tony E, 7k

Summary: Steve Rogers, captain of the spacecraft America, resents playing Director Fury's errand boy, and that's before the mission to collect a mysterious package leads to more trouble than he ever wanted.

Space is for the birds (ao3) - hopelessly_me bucky/clint/steve E, 3k

Summary: Clint gets elected by Tony to travel to space with him to repair a spaceship, and all Clint wants to do is get back home to Bucky and Steve.

Staring at the Sun (ao3) - snoozingkitten steve/tony E, 36k

Summary: Steve is a man on the run from his past, unsure if he even wanted a future. Tony is a man with a dangerous secret. They meet like a train crash and then all bets are off; it’s all everyone can do to survive. Space AU. Western AU.

Sunrise in Exile (ao3) - Ragdoll (Keshka) tony/stephen E, 384k (WIP)

Summary: Tony does the math and realizes their best chance to save the universe is by... not confronting Thanos on his own turf.

So he steals a wizard and a spider and a space ship. And he runs.

(Three humans and an A.I in space, the alien friendships they make along the way, and discovering how science and magic might coexist in a universe where they can be one and the same.)

The Captain and His Courtesan (ao3) - Winterstar steve/tony E, 189k

Summary: A story of revolution.

Captain Steve Rogers is just trying to pay off his debt to SHIELD, carting cargo from the Rim worlds to the Inner Belts in his bucket of bolts ship, the Howling Commando. He keeps a low profile and makes sure his crew is safe and happy. But the universe has a different plan for the once highly decorated Captain of the Honor Guard. The universe drops a Courtesan by the name of Tony Stark into his life. The Captain doesn't like it, but Bucky convinces him that providing transport to the most elusive Courtesan in the Guild could be their ticket to freedom. His crew from the engineer with anger management issues to the pilot who may be a beautiful but deadly assassin wants him to take the commission. What ends up being a simple commission puts his crew in jeopardy and could change all of humanity, because the Courtesan is not really just a pretty face and the Captain of the Honor Guard can fall in love far too easily with a man of conviction - and Tony Stark is a man of conviction.

to dream of the stars (ao3) - gottalovev steve/tony E, 32k

Summary: Fifteen years after a summer romance at Space Academy that left them brokenhearted, Steve and Tony meet again as astronaut candidates.

Under Stars (ao3) - vulcantastic steve/tony T, 14k

Summary: Commander Tony Stark, just kicked off the USS Expedition for mutiny, finds comfort in an ensign wandering the halls of the USS Quinjeti at 0400 hours. Southern comfort, no less.

What do you mean we left Clint on Mars? (ao3) - sara_holmes bucky/clint T, 24k

Summary: “What do you mean we left Clint on Mars?”

Cap’s incredulous voice cuts through the stunned silence of the cockpit, loud and shocked. He’s standing there with his cowl in hand, gaping at the holo-screen at the front of the jet. Next to him, Tony is standing with his hands on his head, mouth hanging open in a similar fashion. Over on the other side of the cockpit is Jane, who has both palms clapped across her mouth like she’s trying to hold back hysterical giggles.

For his part, Bucky is just staring at the screen like he can’t quite believe what’s going on.

When The Stars Come Calling (ao3) - lazywriter7 peter/tony M, 108k

mercury

venus

earth

mars

jupiter

saturn

uranus

neptune

milky way

andromeda

sombrero galaxy

whirlpool galaxy

triangulum galaxy

magellanic clouds

pinwheel galaxy

m87 galaxy