Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing News
Read news about past NASA opportunities and updates on current challenges.
Editor’s note: This release was updated June 6, 2025, to correct the name of one of the awardees. NASA continues…
A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first…
NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university…
NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design…
NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national…
NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and…
In an open challenge, NASA is seeking innovative business models that propose new approaches to solving complex Earth science problems…
Fourteen university teams have been selected as finalists for NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. This…
The NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) seeks solutions to complex Earth Science problems using transformative or unconventional computing technologies…
