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Loading contentWhat comes next — the missions being built and the concepts being studied to return humans to the Moon, bring Mars rocks to Earth, explore the ocean worlds, and search other stars for life. Every mission's real status and open questions are stated plainly.
The themes of future exploration — the Moon, Mars, Venus, the ocean worlds, small bodies, observatories, and the outer Solar System.
7 entriesThe Artemis missions returning humans to the Moon and building a presence in lunar orbit.
2 entriesThe next robotic missions to Mars, Venus, the ocean worlds, the small bodies, and the ice giants.
7 entriesThe great space observatories of the coming decades — dark energy, habitable worlds, gravitational waves, and the X-ray sky.
3 entriesThe return of humans to the Moon and the build-out of a sustained presence — the Artemis crewed missions and the Gateway station in lunar orbit.
The next steps at Mars — returning the samples now being cached by Perseverance, studying the moons of Mars, and preparing for human missions.
A renaissance at Venus — a fleet of new missions to map its surface, sound its atmosphere, and understand why Earth's twin became a hell-world.
The search for habitable environments in the outer Solar System — the subsurface oceans of Europa and the seas and organic chemistry of Titan.
Future missions to asteroids and comets — for science and for planetary defence, including surveys to find the hazardous near-Earth objects before they find us.
The great observatories of the coming decades — surveying dark energy, imaging habitable worlds, and opening the low-frequency gravitational-wave and X-ray skies.
Reaching the least-explored worlds — an orbiter for an ice giant, and a probe designed to travel deliberately beyond the heliosphere into interstellar space.
Each theme and mission concept is a first-class knowledge-graph entity resolved through the Scientific Data Engine, reusing the in-development missions, agencies, and target worlds already in the graph. Only official or credible concepts are included. Curated from NASA and ESA. Status and uncertainties are stated honestly; launch dates are given only when publicly stated. See source quality.