NASA and Hack Club invite students ages 13 to 18 to flex their creativity this summer with the Stardance Challenge. Participants can create anything from code and apps to electronics, circuit boards, models, and simulations. Hack Club will offer peer and expert reviews, prizes, and opportunities to show off your work. NASA will provide access to publicly available datasets, mission materials, multimedia, and virtual sessions with subject matter experts who will share space science, engineering, and career insights. Challenge Dates: June 1- Sept. 30

It’s never too early to begin exploring a career at NASA! Join the NASA Pathways team for a virtual information session that will directly connect participants with representatives from NASA Pathways, Early Careers, and Office of STEM Engagement representatives. Event Date: Aug. 27

Students will dive into the world of rovers, robots, and real space missions through a structured, hands-on experience that connects technology, engineering, and space exploration. This event includes guided tours of JSC’s most exclusive training facilities where students will engage and shadow real-world technicians. A hybrid panel featuring NASA subject matter experts and industry suppliers will also provide practical insights into careers and real-world applications. Event Date: Aug. 28

Join NASA Johnson Space Center for a look at the skilled technical careers in robotics, rovers & space Exploration! Students will dive into the world of rovers, robots, and real space missions through a structured experience that connects technology, engineering, and space exploration. Event Date: Aug. 28

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope’s wide field of view and rapid survey capabilities will open a new window to the universe, revealing countless cosmic objects and offering fresh insights into dark matter and dark energy. As a virtual guest, you gain access to curated resources, schedule changes, and mission specific information delivered straight to your inbox. Event Date: No earlier than Aug. 30

Don't miss your chance to find your place in space with a NASA internship next spring. NASA offers several opportunities for students to undertake meaningful and challenging projects that truly make an impact on humanity. Applications Due: Sept. 14

NASA’s Student Launch competition is accepting proposals for its 2027 competition. Student Launch challenges teams to design, build, and fly a high-powered rocket containing a science or engineering payload. After a competitive proposal selection process, teams complete a series of design reviews that mirror the NASA engineering design life cycle. Proposal Deadline: Sept. 14

Join the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program for its annual symposium at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. This event will feature presentations from currently funded NIAC Fellows. These presentations will cover a diverse range of research areas including revolutionary exploration systems, novel propulsion, human systems and architectures for extreme environments, imaging for deep space exploration, and more. Event Dates: Sept. 15-17

At Marshall Space Flight Center, students will get an up-close look at the technical expertise that powers NASA’s missions, experiencing firsthand how skilled technicians form the backbone of MSFC’s mission success—from operating advanced manufacturing and 3D‑printing equipment to assembling, testing, and maintaining critical propulsion and spacecraft components. Event Date: Sept. 16

Join NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to get an up-close look at the technical expertise that powers NASA's missions. Students will discover how skilled technicians form the backbone of MSFC's mission success. From operating advanced manufacturing and 3D-printing equipment to assembling, testing, and maintaining critical propulsion and spacecraft components, students will gain insight into the wide range of technical disciplines represented at Marshall Space Flight Center. Registration Deadline: Sept. 8 Event Date: Sept. 16

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) is accepting proposals for its 2027 competition. HERC aligns with the goals of the agency’s Artemis missions to the Moon, emphasizing designing, constructing, and testing technologies while traversing unique, environmental terrain. Proposal Deadline: Sept. 17

You are invited to join observers around the world in learning about lunar science and exploration, making celestial observations, and honoring cultural and personal connections to the Moon. Event Date: Sept. 19

Rapid prototyping and problem-solving are critical to achieving complex NASA missions and advancing space exploration. In this event, students will hear directly from Kennedy Space Center subject matter experts about their career journeys to NASA, what a typical day in their role looks like, and the diverse pathways available for students pursuing technical careers at the agency. Students will explore the wide range of technical disciplines represented in KSC's Prototype Development Laboratory (PDL), where NASA engineers, technicians, fabricators and machinists all collaborate to solve complex operational challenges at America's premier launch site. Event Date: Sept. 24

Join NASA Kennedy Space Center to explore how rapid prototyping and problem-solving are critical to achieving complex NASA missions and advancing space exploration. Students will hear directly from Kennedy Space Center subject matter experts about their career journeys to NASA, what a typical day in their role looks like, and the diverse pathways available for students pursuing technical careers at the agency. Registration Deadline: Sept. 15 Event Date: Sept. 24

Career Technical Education (CTE) Day at NASA's Stennis Space Center introduces local community college students to hands-on technical careers that support the NASA mission to the moon and beyond. Students will engage with NASA employees during a panel discussion and participate in behind-the-scenes tours of rocket engine test stands, industrial shops, and other technical workspaces to see how applied skills are used in real world operations that support the NASA Stennis Space Center mission. Event Date: Sept. 30

Join NASA Stennis Space Center to discover hands-on technical careers that support the NASA mission to the moon and beyond! Students will explore career pathways that are in high demand at NASA Stennis Space Center, including roles that do not require a four-year degree. Through this virtual experience, students will gain insight into the wide range of technical disciplines that power rocket propulsion testing and autonomous systems development. Registration Deadline: Sept. 21 Event Date: Sept. 30

The 2026 NASA Space Apps Challenge theme, the Next Frontier, is live! This year, Space Apps participants will develop tools that benefit humanity and contribute to the science and technology propelling us to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Registration opens on Aug. 26! Thank you for helping us amplify our theme and registration campaign. Event Dates: Nov. 14-15

NASA has developed two freely accessible open science training courses designed for learners who are seeking to enhance their knowledge of open science concepts. Our Open Science Essentials and Open Science 101 courses are the perfect starting point for researchers and managers of all disciplines!

Where is NASA in your life? Everywhere! In your car, in your home, in your school, and in the world around you. This year, the NASA Spinoff publication is celebrating 50 years of spotlighting the NASA technologies that improve everyday life on Earth. Check out the latest spinoff technology innovations in the Spinoff 2026 publication.

Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. The new Backyard Worlds: Binaries project lets you help scientists discover these rare and interesting pairs.

Galaxies often contain “clumps,” bright spots where stars are forming fastest. Observatories like the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope are capturing ever-more detailed images of galaxies and these areas of interest. The Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II project lets you help scientists train a machine learning model to better identify and mark these clumps.

Earth is constantly immersed in a stream of charged particles flowing outward from the Sun: the solar wind. As this fast-moving solar wind encounters Earth’s magnetic field, it creates a massive shock wave in space – stretching hundreds of thousands of miles beyond our planet. Volunteers are needed to help scientists examine NASA data about this “bow shock” as part of a new research project: Shock Detectives. You can help by identifying patterns in data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. What we learn here may help us better understand how other stars affect their orbiting planets.

Spark curiosity and creativity with the new “Journey Through the Heliosphere” coloring book. Designed for adults and students in grades 6-12, the downloadable resource includes science facts and coloring pages for ten themes, including the Sun’s magnetic field, solar wind, aurora, eclipses, and how the Sun influences Earth.

When charged particles in the solar wind reach our planet, Earth’s magnetic field acts as a giant umbrella to shield us. NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale mission has been collecting data in this dynamic region of space since 2015. And now, the Space Umbrella project lets you help scientists examine mission data to better understand solar storms.