Major space missions in 2025 are reshaping exploration. Here's a detailed look at key NASA missions, global projects, and the latest space exploration updates to watch.

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya said that despite many rumors about the traveler, it was definitely a comet, not a spacecraft from another star as some have claimed.

When the interstellar comet flew by the red planet in October, multiple NASA missions pivoted from their explorations to capture tantalizing images of the object that originated outside of our solar system. The US space agency released the new observations on Wednesday since it had been unable to share them during the government shutdown.

NASA’s Deep Space Network and Near Space Network will be the communication hubs for the Artemis 1 mission during its journey to the moon and back. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA has finally published several observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that were taken during the long government shutdown. In a special press conference, the space agency released images from eight different missions that add to the Hubble,