List of missions to comets

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Missions to comets includes list of spacecrafts that were launched to study comets. As of 2026, there have been twelve missions from United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, the European Space Agency and China.

## Contents

* 1 List of missions
* 2 Statistics
* 3 Notes
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## List of missions

Mission  | Spacecraft  | Launch date[1] | Carrier rocket[2] | Operator  | Destination  | Mission type  | Outcome

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1  | Explorer 59  | ICE
(ISEE-3) | 12 August 1978  | Delta 2914 |  NASA / 23px ESA | 21P/Giacobini–Zinner  | Flyby  | Success
Extended mission; Closest approach of 7,862 kilometres (4,885 mi) at 11:02 UTC on 11 September 1985. Also made distant observations of 1P/Halley in May 1986.[3]
2  | Vega 1 | 5VK No.901 | 15 December 1984  | Proton-K / D-1  |  Soviet Union | 1P/Halley  | Flyby  | Success
Flew past Halley after visiting Venus; closest approach 8,889 kilometres (5,523 mi) at 07:20:06 UTC on 6 March 1986.[4]
3  | Vega 2 | 5VK No.902 | 21 December 1984  | Proton-K / D-1  |  Soviet Union | 1P/Halley  | Flyby  | Success
Flew past Halley after visiting Venus; closest approach at 07:20 UTC on 9 March 1986.[5]
4  | Sakigake | MS-T5 | 7 January 1985  | Mu-3S-II  | Japan ISAS | 1P/Halley  | Flyby  | Success
Closest approach of 6.99 million kilometres (4.34 million miles) at 04:18 UTC on 11 March 1986.[6]
5  | Giotto | Giotto | 2 July 1985  | Ariane 1 | 23px ESA | 1P/Halley  | Flyby  | Success
26P/Grigg–Skjellerup  | Success
Closest approach of 605 kilometres (376 mi) at 00:03:02 UTC on 14 March 1986.[7] Extended mission to 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup. Closest approach of 200 kilometres (120 mi) at 15:30 UTC on 10 July 1992.[7]
6  | Suisei | Suisei
(PLANET-A) | 19 August 1985  | Mu-3S-II  | Japan ISAS | 1P/Halley  | Flyby  | Success
21P/Giacobini–Zinner  | Failure
Closest approach of 152,400 kilometres (94,700 mi) at 13:06 UTC on 8 March 1986[8] Extended mission to 21P/Giacobini–Zinner, spacecraft ran out of fuel en route; flyby had been scheduled for 24 November 1998.[8]
7  | Deep Space 1 | Deep Space 1 | 24 October 1998  | Delta II 7326  |  NASA |  107P/Wilson–Harrington[lower-alpha 1] | Flyby  | Failure
19P/Borrelly  | Success
Spacecraft was unable to reach Wilson–Harrington due to ion engine operation being suspended while a problem with the probe's star tracker was investigated.[9] Extended mission to 19P/Borrelly was successful.
8  | Discovery 4  | Stardust | 7 February 1999  | Delta II 7426  |  NASA | 81P/Wild  | Flyby  | Success
Sample return  | Success
9P/Tempel  | Flyby  | Success
Extended mission to 9P/Tempel, Stardust-NExT, to survey crater caused by Deep Impact.[citation needed]
9  | Discovery 6  | CONTOUR | 3 July 2002  | Delta II 7425  |  NASA | 2P/Encke  | Flyby  | Spacecraft failure
73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann | Spacecraft failure
6P/d'Arrest  | Spacecraft failure
Flyby to 6P/d'Arrest was provisionally scheduled at time of spacecraft's failure.[citation needed]
10  | Cornerstone 3  | Rosetta | 2 March 2004  | Ariane 5G+ | 23px ESA /  DLE | 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko  | Orbiter  | Success
Philae | Lander  | Success
Rosetta entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina.[citation needed] Philae Came to rest on the surface of 67P at 17:32 UTC on 12 November 2014. Communications ceased with the loss of battery power at 00:36 UTC on 15 November 2014 and the lander began hibernating. Reactivated on solar power and briefly established contact with ground control again at 20:28 UTC on 13 June 2015, and sporadically until 9 July 2015 when the last communication was received.[10][11]
11  | Discovery 7  | Deep Impact | 12 January 2005  | Delta II 7925  |  NASA | 9P/Tempel  | Flyby  | Success
Impactor  | Success
103P/Hartley  | Flyby  | Success
Impact occurred at 05:52 UTC on 4 July 2005.[citation needed] Extended mission (EPOXI).[citation needed]
12  | Tianwen-2 | Tianwen-2 | 28 May 2025  | Long March 3B |  CNSA | 311P/PanSTARRS  | Orbiter  | Enroute
Scheduled for arrival in 2035.[12][better source needed]

## Statistics

† First to achieve ‡ Joint first to achieve

Asteroid belt  Country/Agency  | Flyby  | Orbit  | Impact  | Lander  | Sample return

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United States | ICE, (21P/Giacobini–Zinner) 1978 ‡  | —  | Deep Impact, (Tempel 1) 2005 †  | —  | Stardust, (81P/Wild) 2006 †
23px ESA | ICE, (21P/Giacobini–Zinner) 1978 ‡  | Rosetta, (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko) 2014 †  | —  | Philae, (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko) 2014 †  | —
Soviet Union | Vega 1, (1P/Halley) 1986  | —  | —  | —  | —
Japan | Sakigake, (1P/Halley) 1986  | —  | —  | —  | —

## Notes

1. ↑ Wilson-Harrington is catalogued as both a comet and an asteroid.

## See also

* List of missions to minor planets (includes asteroids)
* List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
* Timeline of Solar System exploration
* List of missions to Venus
* List of missions to the Moon
* List of missions to Mars
* List of missions to minor planets
* List of extraterrestrial orbiters

## References

1. ↑ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt.
2. ↑ Krebs, Gunter. "Interplanetary Probes". Gunter's Space Page. http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/ip_probe.htm.
3. ↑ "Solar System Exploration - ISEE-3/ICE". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=ISEEICE&Display=ReadMore.
4. ↑ "Solar System Exploration - Vega 1". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=Vega_01&Display=ReadMore.
5. ↑ "Solar System Exploration - Vega 2". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=Vega_02&Display=ReadMore.
6. ↑ "Solar System Exploration - Sakigake". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=Sakigake&Display=ReadMore.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Solar System Exploration - Giotto". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=Giotto&Display=ReadMore.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Solar System Exploration - Suisei". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=Suisei&Display=ReadMore.
9. ↑ "Solar System Exploration - Deep Space 1". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Comets&MCode=DS1&Display=ReadMore.
10. ↑ "Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernation". European Space Agency, Rosetta Blog. 14 June 2015. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/14/rosettas-lander-philae-wakes-up-from-hibernation/.
11. ↑ Baldwin, Emily (20 July 2015). "Rosetta and Philae status update". European Space Agency. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/20/rosetta-and-philae-status-update/.
12. ↑ "@AJ_FI" (in en). X. 2025-04-11. https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1910650371346780181.

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Spacecraft missions to minor planets and comets

* List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
* List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces

Past and
current|

| Flybys|

* Cassini–Huygens
* Chang'e 2
* Clementine†
* CONTOUR†
* Deep Impact
* EPOXI
* Deep Space 1
* Galileo
* Halley Armada
* Giotto
* Sakigake
* Suisei
* Vega 1
* Vega 2
* International Cometary Explorer
* NEAR Shoemaker
* New Horizons
* Pioneer 7
* PROCYON†
* Rosetta
* Stardust/NExT
* Ulysses

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Orbiters|

* Dawn
* Hayabusa
* Hayabusa2
* NEAR Shoemaker
* OSIRIS-REx
* Rosetta
* Timeline

Landers|

* Hayabusa
* MINERVA†
* Hayabusa2
* HIBOU
* MASCOT
* MINERVA-II 2
* OWL
* NEAR Shoemaker
* Philae

Impactors|

* Deep Impact

Sample return|

* Hayabusa
* Hayabusa2
* OSIRIS-REx
* Stardust

Planned|

* NEA Scout (flyby, 2020-2021)
* Lucy (multiple flybys, 2021)
* DART (impactor and flyby, 2021)
* DESTINY+ (multiple flybys, 2022)
* Psyche (orbiter, 2022)
* Hera (orbiter and landers, 2024)
* Comet Interceptor (flyby, 2028)

Proposed|

* ASTER (orbiter, 2021)
* Athena (flyby of Pallas, 2022)
* Centaurus (multiple flybys, 2026-2029)
* CORSAIR (sample return)
* HAMMER (nuclear impactor concept)
* MANTIS (multiple flybys)
* OKEANOS (multiple flybys and sample return, 2026)
* World Is Not Enough (spacecraft refueling concept)
* ZhengHe (multiple flybys and sample return, 2024)

Cancelled or
not developed|

* AGORA
* AIM
* Asteroid Redirect Mission
* CAESAR
* Castalia
* Clementine 2
* Comet Hopper
* CONDOR
* CRAF
* Don Quijote
* Hayabusa Mk2
* MAOSEP
* Marco Polo
* New Horizons 2
* Vesta

Related|

* Asteroid belt
* Asteroid capture
* Asteroid mining
* Colonization of asteroids
* Ceres
* Colonization
* Pluto
* Exploration
* Small Solar System bodies
* Near-Earth object
* Trans-Neptunian object
* Colonization
* Trojan
* Vesta

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Space missions by destination

Planets|

* Mercury
* Venus
* Mars
* Outer planets
* Jupiter
* Saturn
* Uranus
* Neptune

Others|

* The Moon
* lunar probes
* Minor planets
* Comets

Orbiters|

* Extraterrestrial orbiters
* Mars orbiters
* Objects in heliocentric orbit

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Comets

| Features|

* Nucleus
* Coma
* Tails
* Antitail
* Comet dust
* Meteor shower

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Types|

* Periodic
* Numbered
* Lost
* Long period
* Halley-type
* Jupiter-family
* Encke-type
* Main-belt
* Non-periodic
* Near-parabolic
* Hyperbolic
* Unknown-orbit
* Great Comet
* Sungrazing (Kreutz)
* Extinct
* Rock
* Exocomet
* Interstellar

Related|

* Naming of comets
* Centaur
* Comet discoverers
* LINEAR
* Extraterrestrial atmosphere
* Oort cloud
* Small Solar System body
* Asteroid

Exploration|

* List of missions to comets
* List of comets visited by spacecraft

Latest|

* 2I/Borisov
* C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
* C/2017 U7
* 1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua
* C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE)
* C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
* C/2015 F5 (SWAN-XingMing)
* C/2015 F3
* C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
* C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
* C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
* C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
* C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)

Culture and
speculation|

* Antimatter comet
* Comets in fiction
* list
* Comet vintages

Lists of comets (more)

| Periodic
comets|

| Until 1985
(all)|

* 1P/Halley
* 2P/Encke
* 3D/Biela
* 4P/Faye
* 5D/Brorsen
* 6P/d'Arrest
* 7P/Pons–Winnecke
* 8P/Tuttle
* 9P/Tempel
* 10P/Tempel
* 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
* 12P/Pons–Brooks
* 13P/Olbers
* 14P/Wolf
* 15P/Finlay
* 16P/Brooks
* 17P/Holmes
* 18D/Perrine–Mrkos
* 19P/Borrelly
* 20D/Westphal
* 21P/Giacobini–Zinner
* 22P/Kopff
* 23P/Brorsen–Metcalf
* 24P/Schaumasse
* 25D/Neujmin
* 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
* 27P/Crommelin
* 28P/Neujmin
* 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
* 30P/Reinmuth
* 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
* 32P/Comas Solà
* 33P/Daniel
* 34D/Gale
* 35P/Herschel–Rigollet
* 36P/Whipple
* 37P/Forbes
* 38P/Stephan–Oterma
* 39P/Oterma
* 40P/Väisälä
* 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák
* 42P/Neujmin
* 43P/Wolf–Harrington
* 44P/Reinmuth
* 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková
* 46P/Wirtanen
* 47P/Ashbrook–Jackson
* 48P/Johnson
* 49P/Arend–Rigaux
* 50P/Arend
* 51P/Harrington
* 52P/Harrington–Abell
* 53P/Van Biesbroeck
* 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT
* 55P/Tempel–Tuttle
* 56P/Slaughter–Burnham
* 57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte
* 58P/Jackson–Neujmin
* 59P/Kearns–Kwee
* 60P/Tsuchinshan
* 61P/Shajn–Schaldach
* 62P/Tsuchinshan
* 63P/Wild
* 64P/Swift–Gehrels
* 65P/Gunn
* 66P/du Toit
* 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
* 68P/Klemola
* 69P/Taylor
* 70P/Kojima
* 71P/Clark
* 72P/Denning–Fujikawa
* 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
* 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh
* 75D/Kohoutek
* 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura
* 77P/Longmore
* 78P/Gehrels
* 79P/du Toit–Hartley
* 80P/Peters–Hartley
* 81P/Wild
* 82P/Gehrels
* 83D/Russell
* 84P/Giclas
* 85D/Boethin
* 86P/Wild
* 87P/Bus
* 88P/Howell
* 89P/Russell
* 90P/Gehrels
* 91P/Russell
* 92P/Sanguin
* 93P/Lovas
* 94P/Russell
* 95P/Chiron
* 96P/Machholz
* 97P/Metcalf–Brewington
* 98P/Takamizawa
* 99P/Kowal
* 100P/Hartley
* 101P/Chernykh
* 102P/Shoemaker

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After 1985
(notable)|

* 103P/Hartley
* 105P/Singer Brewster
* 107P/Wilson–Harrington
* 109P/Swift–Tuttle
* 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett
* 114P/Wiseman–Skiff
* 128P/Shoemaker–Holt
* 139P/Väisälä–Oterma
* 144P/Kushida
* 147P/Kushida–Muramatsu
* 153P/Ikeya–Zhang
* 163P/NEAT
* 168P/Hergenrother
* 169P/NEAT
* 177P/Barnard
* 178P/Hug–Bell
* 205P/Giacobini
* 209P/LINEAR
* 238P/Read
* 246P/NEAT
* 252P/LINEAR
* 255P/Levy
* 273P/Pons–Gambart
* 276P/Vorobjov
* 289P/Blanpain
* 311P/PANSTARRS
* 322P/SOHO
* 332P/Ikeya-Murakami
* 354P/LINEAR
* 362P
* P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi)
* P/2010 B2 (WISE)
* P/2011 NO1 (Elenin)

Comet-like
asteroids|

* 596 Scheila
* 2060 Chiron (95P)
* 4015 Wilson–Harrington (107P)
* 7968 Elst–Pizarro (133P)
* 165P/LINEAR
* 166P/NEAT
* 167P/CINEOS
* 60558 Echeclus (174P)
* 118401 LINEAR (176P)
* 238P/Read
* 259P/Garradd
* 311P/PANSTARRS
* 324P/La Sagra
* P/2010 A2 (LINEAR)
* P/2012 F5 (Gibbs)
* P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
* P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PANSTARRS)
* (300163) 2006 VW139

Lost|

| Recovered|

* 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
* 15P/Finlay
* 17P/Holmes
* 27P/Crommelin
* 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT
* 55P/Tempel–Tuttle
* 57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte
* 69P/Taylor
* 72P/Denning–Fujikawa
* 80P/Peters–Hartley
* 97P/Metcalf–Brewington
* 107P/Wilson–Harrington
* 109P/Swift–Tuttle
* 113P/Spitaler
* 122P/de Vico
* 157P/Tritton
* 177P/Barnard
* 205P/Giacobini
* 206P/Barnard–Boattini
* 271P/van Houten–Lemmon
* 273P/Pons–Gambart
* 289P/Blanpain

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Destroyed|

* 3D/Biela
* 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
* D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker–Levy 9)

Not found|

* D/1770 L1 (Lexell)
* 5D/Brorsen
* 18D/Perrine–Mrkos
* 20D/Westphal
* 25D/Neujmin
* 34D/Gale
* 75D/Kohoutek
* 83D/Russell
* 85D/Boethin

Visited by
spacecraft|

* 21P/Giacobini–Zinner (1985)
* 1P/Halley (1986)
* 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup (1992)
* 19P/Borrelly (2001)
* 81P/Wild (2004)
* 9P/Tempel (2005, 2011)
* C/2006 P1 (2007)
* 103P/Hartley (2010)
* 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (2014)

Non-Periodic
comets
(notable)|

| Until 1910|

* C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet)
* X/1106 C1 (Great Comet of 1106)
* C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577)
* C/1652 Y1
* C/1680 V1 (Great Comet of 1680, Kirsch's Comet, Newton's Comet))
* C/1702 H1 (Comet of 1702)
* C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729, Comet Sarabat)
* C/1743 X1 (Great Comet of 1744, Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux)
* C/1760 A1 (Great Comet of 1760)
* C/1769 P1 (Great Comet of 1769)
* C/1807 R1 (Great Comet of 1807)
* C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811)
* C/1819 N1 (Great Comet of 1819)
* C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823)
* C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843)
* C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet)
* C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati)
* C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher)
* C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861)
* C/1865 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1865)
* X/1872 X1 (Pogson's Comet)
* C/1874 H1 (Comet Coggia)
* C/1881 K1 (Comet Tebbutt)
* C/1882 R1 (Great Comet of 1882)
* C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887)
* C/1890 V1 (Comet Zona)
* C/1901 G1 (Great Comet of 1901)
* C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)

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After 1910|

* C/1911 O1 (Brooks)
* C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky)
* C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany)
* C/1931 P1 (Ryves)
* C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos) [de; de]
* C/1947 X1 (Southern Comet) [de; de; C/1947 X1 (Südkomet)]
* C/1948 V1 (Eclipse)
* C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland)
* C/1957 P1 (Mrkos) [de; de]
* C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard) [de; de]
* C/1961 R1 (Humason)
* C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) [de; de]
* C/1963 R1 (Pereyra)
* C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki)
* C/1969 Y1 (Bennett)
* C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli)
* C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek)
* C/1975 V1 (West)
* C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
* C/1983 H1 (IRAS–Araki–Alcock)
* C/1989 X1 (Austin)
* C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George)
* C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch–Rabinowitz)
* C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell)
* C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp)
* C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
* C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam)
* C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse)
* C/1998 J1 (SOHO)
* C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
* C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
* C/2000 U5 (LINEAR)
* C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones)
* C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)
* C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
* C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
* C/2003 A2 (Gleason)
* C/2004 F4 (Bradfield) [de; de]
* C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)
* C/2006 A1 (Pojmański)
* C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
* C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
* C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
* C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
* C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy)
* C/2007 N3 (Lulin)
* C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
* C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
* C/2008 Q1 (Matičič)
* C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN)
* C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
* C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
* C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
* C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
* C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
* C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2012 S1 (ISON)
* C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
* C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
* C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
* C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
* C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
* C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
* C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)
* C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
* 1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua
* C/2017 U7
* C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
* C/2019 E3 (ATLAS)
* 2I/Borisov

After 1910
(by name)|

* Arend–Roland
* Austin
* Beljawsky
* Bennett
* Boattini
* Bowell
* Bradfield [de; de]
* Brooks
* Catalina
* C/1999 F1
* C/2013 US10
* de Kock–Paraskevopoulos [de; de]
* Eclipse
* Elenin
* Hale-Bopp
* Humason
* Hyakutake
* Ikeya-Seki
* IRAS–Araki–Alcock
* ISON
* Jacques
* Johnson
* Kohoutek
* Lemmon
* C/2012 F6
* C/2018 C2
* LINEAR
* C/1999 S4
* C/2000 U5
* C/2002 T7
* LONEOS
* C/2001 OG108
* C/2007 F1
* Lovejoy
* C/2007 E2
* C/2007 K5
* C/2011 W3
* C/2013 R1
* C/2014 Q2
* Lulin
* Machholz
* Matičič
* McNaught
* C/2006 P1
* C/2009 R1
* McNaught–Russell
* Mrkos [de; de]
* NEAT
* Oukaimeden
* ʻOumuamua
* Pan-STARRS
* C/2011 L4
* C/2012 K1
* C/2012 S4
* 311P
* C/2015 ER61
* Pereyra
* Pojmański
* Ryves
* Seki–Lines [de; de]
* Siding Spring
* C/2007 Q3
* C/2013 A1
* Skjellerup–Maristany
* Skorichenko–George
* SOHO
* Southern [de; de; C/1947 X1 (Südkomet)]
* Spacewatch–Rabinowitz
* Stonehouse
* SWAN
* C/2006 M4
* C/2012 E2
* Utsunomiya–Jones
* West
* White–Ortiz–Bolelli
* Wilson–Hubbard [de; de]
* Yi–SWAN
* Zhu–Balam

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* Giant planets
* Jupiter
* Saturn
* Uranus
* Neptune

* Dwarf planets
* Ceres
* Pluto
* Haumea
* Makemake
* Eris

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Rings|

* Jovian
* Saturnian (Rhean)
* Charikloan
* Chironean
* Uranian
* Neptunian
* Haumean

Moons|

* Terrestrial
* Moon
* other near-Earth objects
* Martian
* Phobos
* Deimos
* Jovian
* Ganymede
* Callisto
* Io
* Europa
* all 79
* Saturnian
* Titan
* Rhea
* Iapetus
* Dione
* Tethys
* Enceladus
* Mimas
* Hyperion
* Phoebe
* all 82
* Uranian
* Titania
* Oberon
* Umbriel
* Ariel
* Miranda
* all 27
* Neptunian
* Triton
* Proteus
* Nereid
* all 14
* Plutonian
* Charon
* Nix
* Hydra
* Kerberos
* Styx
* Eridian
* Dysnomia
* Haumean
* Hiʻiaka
* Namaka
* Makemakean
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Exploration
(outline)|

* Colonization
* Discovery
* astronomy
* historical models
* timeline
* Human spaceflight
* space stations
* list
* Space probes
* timeline
* list

* Mercury
* Venus
* Moon
* mining
* Mars
* Ceres
* Asteroids
* mining
* Comets
* Jupiter
* Saturn
* Uranus
* Neptune
* Pluto
* Deep space

Hypothetical
objects|

* Fifth giant
* Nemesis
* Phaeton
* Planet Nine
* Planet V
* Planet X
* Theia
* Tyche
* Vulcan
* Vulcanoids
* Subsatellites

Lists|

* Comets
* Dwarf planets (possible)
* Gravitationally rounded objects
* Minor planets
* names
* Natural satellites
* Solar System models
* Solar System objects
* by size
* by discovery date

| Small Solar
System bodies|

* Comets
* Damocloids
* Meteoroids
* Minor planets
* moons
* Planetesimal

* Mercury-crossers
* Venus-crossers
* Venus trojans
* Near-Earth objects
* Earth-crossers
* Earth trojans
* Mars-crossers
* Mars trojans

* Asteroid belt
* Asteroids
* Ceres
* Pallas
* Juno
* Vesta
* first 1000
* families
* exceptional
* Kirkwood gap
* Main-belt comets

* Jupiter-crossers
* Jupiter trojans
* Centaurs
* Saturn-crossers
* Uranus-crossers
* Uranus trojans
* Neptune-crossers
* Neptune trojans
* Cis-Neptunian objects
* Trans-Neptunian objects

* Plutoids
* Kuiper belt
* Cubewanos
* Plutinos
* Detached objects
* Hills cloud
* Oort cloud
* Scattered disc
* Sednoids

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Formation
and evolution|

* Accretion
* Accretion disk
* Asteroid belt
* Circumplanetary disk
* Circumstellar disc
* Circumstellar envelope
* Cosmic dust
* Debris disk
* Detached object
* Disrupted planet
* Excretion disk
* Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer
* Exozodiacal dust
* Extraterrestrial materials
* Extraterrestrial sample curation
* Giant-impact hypothesis
* Gravitational collapse
* Hills cloud
* Interplanetary dust cloud
* Interplanetary medium
* Interplanetary space
* Interstellar cloud
* Interstellar dust
* Interstellar medium
* Interstellar space
* Kuiper belt
* List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
* Merging stars
* Molecular cloud
* Nebular hypothesis
* Oort cloud
* Outer space
* Planetary migration
* Planetary system
* Planetesimal
* Planet formation
* Protoplanetary disk
* Ring system
* Rubble pile
* Sample-return mission
* Scattered disc
* Star formation

* Outline of the Solar System
*   *   *

Solar System → Local Interstellar Cloud → Local Bubble → Gould Belt → Orion Arm → Milky Way → Milky Way subgroup → Local Group → Local Sheet → Virgo Supercluster → Laniakea Supercluster → Observable universe → Universe
Each arrow (→) may be read as "within" or "part of".

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