science predictions for 2025 | Future timeline
Read science predictions for 2025, a year that will see the world transform thanks to scientific disruptions that will impact a wide range of sectors—and we explore many of them below. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
science forecasts for 2025
- Total lunar eclipse (Full Beaver Blood Moon) occurs. Likelihood: 80 percent.1
- NASA's "Artemis" spacecraft lands on the moon. Likelihood: 70 percent1
- Orbital Assembly Corporation's space hotel "Pioneer" starts orbiting around Earth. Likelihood: 50 percent1
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons Exploration probe enters Mars' orbit before moving on to its Phobos moon to collect particles. Likelihood: 60 percent1
- The Chile-based Extremely Large Telescope (ETL) is completed and able to gather 13 times more light than existing Earth-based counterparts. Likelihood: 60 percent1
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's deep-space habitat space station, Gateway, is launched, allowing for more astronauts to conduct research particularly for Mars exploration. Likelihood: 60 percent1
- Aeronautics startup Venus Aerospace conducts the first ground test of its hypersonic aircraft, Stargazer, designed to perform ‘one-hour global travel.’ Likelihood: 60 percent1
- BepiColombo, a spacecraft launched in 2018 by the European Space Agency and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, finally enters Mercury's orbit. Likelihood: 65 percent1
- The low-cost reusable rocket engine demonstrator fuelled by liquid methane, Prometheus, begins fuelling the Ariane 6 rocket launcher. Likelihood: 60 percent1
- The European Space Agency starts drilling the Moon for oxygen and water to support a manned outpost. Likelihood: 60 percent1
- The Giant Magellan Telescope is scheduled for completion. 1
- Planned completion of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. 1
- Africa's Green Wall of drought-resistant trees restricts land degredation is completed. 1
- Africa's Green Wall of drought-resistant trees restricts land degredation is completed 1
- Global reserves of Nickel is fully mined and depleted1
Forecast
In 2025, a number of science breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- Between 2024 and 2026, NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon will safely be completed, marking the first crewed mission to the moon in decades. It will also include the first female astronaut to step on the moon as well. Likelihood: 70% 1
- Africa's Green Wall of drought-resistant trees restricts land degredation is completed 1
- Global reserves of Nickel is fully mined and depleted 1
- Worst case forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 2 degrees Celsius 1
- Forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.5 degrees Celsius 1
- Optimistic forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.19 degrees Celsius 1
Prediction
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 include:
- The rise of the transportation internet: Future of Transportation P4
- Renewables vs. the thorium and fusion energy wildcards: Future of Energy P5
- Solar energy and the rise of the energy internet: Future of Energy P4
- Peak cheap oil triggers renewable era: Future of Energy P2
- Smart vs vertical farms: Future of food P4
- China, rise of a new global hegemon: Geopolitics of Climate Change
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