Missions

The latest news from the spacecraft helping us explore the cosmos, and the historical missions that paved the way.

SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour successfully splashes down with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, 2 August 2020. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Splashdown for first NASA Commercial Crew flight to ISS

The Atlas V carrying the Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral, July 30, 2020. Credit: United Launch Alliance

Mars 2020 NASA's Perseverance rover begins journey to Red Planet

Images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede captured on 26 December 20198 showing infrared mapping of its North Pole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

Eye On The Sky Juno images north pole of Jupiter's moon Ganymede

An Albanian postage stamp showing Laika the space dog. Credit: Blank Archives/Getty Images

Space History Animals in space

An artist's impression of the Perseverance Rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mars 2020 The new missions heading for the Red Planet

The Hope Probe has launched on its mission to Mars. Credit: United Arab Emirates Hope Mars Mission

Emirates launches Hope probe to study Mars

A view of the Sun captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter, 30 May 2020. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL

Eye On The Sky ESA's Solar Orbiter first light images released

ESA's Cluster mission

Radio Astronomy Podcast 20 years of ESA's Cluster mission

The current Venus rover design with wheels and an exterior turbine. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Venus Could we ever land a rover on the hellish planet?

Linda Morabito’s computer displays the image in which Io’s volcanic plume was revealed. Image provided by Bill Peters and used with permission.

Volcanoes on Io: an interview with Voyager scientist Linda Morabito

Hera orbiting Didymos

Hera: Europe’s asteroid mission to defend Earth

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo by Julian Leek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches in historic first crewed flight

Earth from space: the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia captured from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA

Eye On The Sky Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast glimmers in International Space Station image

Earth, as seen by the Bepi Colombo spacecraft. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Eye On The Sky Bepi Colombo spacecraft's final glimpse of Earth

A mission to Uranus could teach us a lot, including about the early Solar System. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

Why we should send a spacecraft to explore Uranus