Understanding the Future of Exploration
What comes next in space — the missions being built and the concepts being studied, from the Artemis return to the Moon to the search for life around other stars. Only official or credible missions, with honest status and open questions.
Related entities
- Exploration theme
Lunar Exploration
The 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.
- Mission concept
Dragonfly
A NASA New Frontiers rotorcraft that will fly across the dunes and impact craters of Saturn's moon Titan, sampling a world with a thick atmosphere and a rich organic chemistry.
- Mission concept
Habitable Worlds Observatory
NASA's next flagship space telescope, recommended by the astronomy decadal survey — designed to directly image potentially habitable planets around other stars and search their atmospheres for signs of life.
- Mission concept
Artemis III
The mission intended to return humans to the surface of the Moon — the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17, targeting the water-ice-bearing south-polar region.