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Illustration of BepiColumbo mission spacecraft

BepiColombo will use two orbiters to study Mercury from unique vantage points looking for clues... View Mission

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Dart mission

NASA's DART mission will be the first ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by a... View Mission

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NASA will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions that we had been... View Mission

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InSight is a Mars lander mission planned for launch in spring 2016. InSight will investigate... View Mission

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The primary scientific goal of the Juno mission is to significantly improve our understanding of... View Mission

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Illustration of Lucy spacecraft near asteroids in space

Lucy: the first mission to Jupiter’s Trojans, will launch in October 2021 and, with boosts from... View Mission

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Artistic render of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

LRO was the first mission in NASA's plan to return to the Moon and then to travel to Mars and... View Mission

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Artist concept of Mars Rover on Mar's surface

To seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith for possible return to... View Mission

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NASA is participating in a mission of the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency... View Mission

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Still in orbit around Mars, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft has collected thousands of... View Mission

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 12, 2005, is on a search for evidence that... View Mission

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The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity landed on... View Mission

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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will set down a sophisticated, large, mobile laboratory... View Mission

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The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission was launched on November 18, 2013.... View Mission

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Illustration of Neowise mission spacecraft

The NEOWISE project is the asteroid-hunting portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey... View Mission

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The New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission, launched in January 2006 and due to arrive at Pluto... View Mission

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NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples... View Mission

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Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in... View Mission