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This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. [1] While the exploration of space is currently carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes , its physical exploration is conducted both by uncrewed robotic space probes and human spaceflight .
List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope; List of exoplanets observed during Kepler's K2 mission; List of extrasolar candidates for liquid water; List of hottest exoplanets; List of coolest exoplanets; List of multiplanetary systems; List of nearest exoplanets; List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates
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The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
James Webb Space Telescope: 25 December 2021 Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L 2 [487] [488] CAPSTONE: 28 June 2022 Lunar orbiter [489] Danuri 5 August 2022 Lunar orbiter [490] Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats 16 November 2022 Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and ...
The first probe to explore the outer planets was Pioneer 10, which flew by Jupiter in 1973. Pioneer 11 was the first to visit Saturn, in 1979. The Voyager probes performed a Grand Tour of the outer planets following their launch in 1977, with both probes passing Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980–1981.
In 1929, the Slovene officer Hermann Noordung was the first to imagine a complete space station in his book The Problem of Space Travel. [7] [8] The first rocket to reach space was a German V-2 rocket, on a vertical test flight in June 1944. [9]