Deep-space missions
Robotic explorers are spread across the Solar System, from probes skimming the Sun to the Voyagers in interstellar space. Each guide shows where the spacecraft is now, the route it has flown and where it is heading.
- NASA / JPL · 1977
Voyager 1
The most distant human-made object
- NASA / JPL · 1977
Voyager 2
The only visitor to Uranus and Neptune
- NASA / JHUAPL · 2006
New Horizons
The first mission to Pluto
- NASA / JPL · 2011
Juno
Peering beneath Jupiter's clouds
- NASA / JHUAPL · 2018
Parker Solar Probe
The spacecraft that touched the Sun
- NASA / JPL · 2024
Europa Clipper
Searching for a habitable ocean
- ESA · 2023
JUICE
Europe's explorer of Jupiter's icy moons
- ESA / JAXA · 2018
BepiColombo
Two orbiters bound for Mercury
- NASA / SwRI · 2021
Lucy
A tour of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
- NASA / JPL · 2023
Psyche
Journey to a metal world
- ESA / NASA · 2020
Solar Orbiter
The first views of the Sun's poles
- NASA · 2016
OSIRIS-APEX
From Bennu's sample to Apophis
- ESA · 2024
Hera
A crash-scene investigator for planetary defence
- NASA / ESA / CSA · 2021
James Webb Space Telescope
The largest space telescope ever launched
- NASA · 1972
Pioneer 10
The first visitor to Jupiter