Best Planetary Science

The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars in 2004 with a planned 90-day mission. They vastly exceeded expectations, operating for years and providing invaluable data about th...

New Horizons achieved the first-ever flyby of Pluto in 2015, revealing a surprisingly complex and geologically active dwarf planet. The mission continued into the Kuiper Belt, providing data about oth...

The Cassini-Huygens mission, orbiting Saturn from 2004 to 2017, provided an unprecedented look at the ringed planet and its moons. The Huygens probe successfully landed on Titan, revealing a landscape...

Venus Express, an ESA mission, orbited Venus from 2006 to 2014, providing detailed observations of the planet's atmosphere and surface. It revealed insights into the super-rotating atmosphere, the rol...

The Dawn mission, operated by NASA, explored the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt. It provided detailed maps and compositional data, revealing th...