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Late 2026: JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft launches to study Phobos and Deimos, carrying the Idefix rover.
November 2026: BepiColombo (ESA/JAXA) arrives at Mercury and performs its Orbital Insertion after 6 gravity-assist flybys, beginning its scientific mapping phase.
February 6, 2027: Annular solar eclipse visible across South America and Antarctica.
2027: NASA's Artemis III mission executes Earth-orbit docking and rendezvous tests with commercial human landing systems (Starship/Blue Moon) ahead of future surface landings.
August 2, 2027: Major Total Solar Eclipse visible across North Africa, Spain, and the Middle East.
August 7, 2027: Near-Earth asteroid (137108) 1999 AN10 makes a close approach, passing within 388,960 km (0.0026 AU) of Earth.
Mid-to-Late 2027: Lucy (NASA) executes a gravity assist flyby of Earth before heading toward the Trojan asteroids.
Early 2028: NASA's Artemis IV mission targets the first crewed lunar south pole landing since Apollo 17, establishing a sustained human presence.
July 22, 2028: Total solar eclipse visible across Australia (including Sydney) and New Zealand.
July 2028: NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft launches toward Saturn's moon Titan.
August 2028: Lucy (NASA) flyby of Trojan asteroid (11351) Leucus.
October 2028: Lucy (NASA) flyby of Trojan asteroid (21900) Orus.
October 26, 2028: Near-Earth asteroid (35396) 1997 XF11 passes approximately 930,000 km (0.0062 AU) from Earth.
2028: ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover launches to search for signs of past Martian life.
April 13, 2029: Near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis passes extremely close to Earth—within 31,200 km (19,400 miles) of the surface, well inside the orbit of geosynchronous satellites.
April 2029: OSIRIS-APEX (NASA, former OSIRIS-REx) arrives at asteroid Apophis shortly after its close flyby of Earth to begin orbit and surface analysis.
June 2029: DAVINCI (NASA) Venus atmospheric probe descent and flyby mission.
June 25, 2029: Largest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century (umbral eclipse magnitude of 1.8436).
September 2029: Tianwen-4 (CNSA) launches toward Jupiter (and a subsequent Uranus flyby).
2029 (Estimated): New Horizons (NASA) exits the Kuiper Belt.
2030: China's Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission launches.
July 2030: JUICE (ESA) performs a flyby of Ganymede.
July 2030: Europa Clipper (NASA) arrives at the Jovian system and conducts its first dedicated close flyby of Europa.
July 2030: JUICE (ESA) performs a close flyby of Europa.
November 2031: JUICE (ESA) performs a flyby of Callisto.
2031: JAXA/MMX scheduled return of Phobos soil samples back to Earth.
2031: Expected arrival of EnVision (ESA) and VERITAS (NASA) at Venus for high-resolution orbiter mapping.
November 13, 2032: Transit of Mercury across the Sun.
2032: Dragonfly (NASA) rotorcraft mission arrives and lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
March 2–3, 2033: Lucy (NASA) reaches its final target, performing a close flyby of the binary Jupiter Trojan pair (617) Patroclus and Menoetius.
October 8, 2033: Supermoon total lunar eclipse.
December 2034: JUICE (ESA) enters orbit around Ganymede, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a moon other than Earth's Moon.
2035: International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) targeted for operational readiness by CNSA and partners.
2038: Next Saturn Triple Ring Plane Crossing relative to Earth.
December 2038: New Horizons (NASA) reaches a distance of 100 AU from the Sun.
November 7, 2039: Transit of Mercury across the Sun.
September 8, 2040: Rare planetary alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the crescent Moon.
April 5, 2227 – 2247: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbital distance from the Sun for a 20-year window, making Neptune temporarily the outermost known planet/dwarf planet in that regime.
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