science predictions for 2023 | Future timeline

Read 43 science predictions for 2023, 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 2023

  • The European Space Agency launches the Hera Mission, a binary asteroid system designed to detect threatening asteroids weeks before they get near Earth. Likelihood: 60 percentlink
  • The OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in 2016 to visit the asteroid Bennu, returns a 2.1 ounce sample of the rocky body back to Earth. Likelihood: 60 percentlink
  • NASA and Axiom Space launch the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX rockets. Likelihood: 80 percentlink
  • The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches the world's first wooden satellite. Likelihood: 60 percentlink
  • The European Space Agency's SOLARIS program, designed to study the feasibility of building Space-Based Solar Power, is conducted. Likelihood: 70 percentlink
  • China finishes building a mega-laser (100-petawatt laser pulses) that is so powerful, it could tear space apart; that is, it could theoretically create matter out of energy. Likelihood: 70%link
  • UN finally delivers climate plan to reduce emissions caused by global shipping industry. link
  • Acoustic earthquake shield developed to protect cities from earthquakes begin seeing initial use. link
  • Acoustic earthquake shield developed to protect cities from earthquakes begin seeing initial use link
Forecast
In 2023, a number of science breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
  • Between 2020 to 2023, a periodic solar event called a "grand minimum" overtakes the sun (lasting through 2070), resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth — all bringing a cooler per Likelihood: 50% link
  • UN finally delivers climate plan to reduce emissions caused by global shipping industry. link
  • Acoustic earthquake shield developed to protect cities from earthquakes begin seeing initial use link
Prediction
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2023 include:

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