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Active and upcoming missions from NASA, ESA, ISRO, JAXA, and commercial programs. What launched, what’s operating, and what’s next.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope activated its Coronagraph Instrument on September 1, 2026, beginning months of tests before it directly images giant exoplanets and dusty disks.
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory resumed two of its three science instruments Aug. 26 after a commercial rescue mission to boost its orbit fell through.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, beginning a three month journey toward a vantage point one million miles from Earth.
NASA's Perseverance rover captured the first-ever observation from another planet of Earth disappearing behind an object, the Martian moon Phobos.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft photographed Trojan asteroids Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus from hundreds of millions of miles away, testing cameras ahead of its 2027 flybys.
NASA’s Artemis II Earth splashdown return marks the closing phase of humanity’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, as four astronauts aboard Orion prepare to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere after a successful journey around the Moon. The mission…
In 2026, humanity will return to lunar space with NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The ten-day flight will send four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a free-return…
A Dramatic Hubble View of NGC 1792 A tilted spiral galaxy fills the scene with chaotic beauty—patchy arms, bright blue star clusters, glowing red nebulae, and thick dust lanes winding through the disc. Light from NGC 1792 extends into the…
