Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing News
Read news about past NASA opportunities and updates on current challenges.

The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit.…

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA…

A South Dakota State University team took first place at NASA’s fifth annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged…

The Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge — the fifth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a competition to advance…

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA…

NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) uses research to develop methods to protect the health and performance of astronauts in space.…

Technology and science demonstrations, supported by various NASA industry collaborations and agency developments, are set to launch to low Earth…

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on March 31, 2026, to update the finalists list. NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the…

NASA selected 14 university teams from across the nation as finalists in the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic…






