NASA Seeking Student Proposals for 2023 TechRise Challenge

NASA Seeking Student Proposals for 2023 TechRise Challenge

U.S. students in grades 6–12 are invited to team up with their classmates to develop a science or technology experiment idea for NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. The challenge calls for an experiment designed for one of two flight vehicles: a high-altitude...
NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

NASA Just Brought Its First Asteroid Sample Back to Earth

The sample return capsule for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission touched down in the Utah desert on Sept. 24. with a sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber After seven years and billions of miles of space travel, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral...
Send a ‘Message in a Bottle’ Across the Solar System to Europa

Send a ‘Message in a Bottle’ Across the Solar System to Europa

Credit: NASA NASA is offering a chance to send your name to a distant moon as part of a mission to determine whether life could exist elsewhere in the solar system! The Europa Clipper mission will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Jupiterʻs icy moon, Europa—a world...
Sign Up Now to Compete in NASA’s 2023 Space Apps Challenge

Sign Up Now to Compete in NASA’s 2023 Space Apps Challenge

UH Institute for Astronomy is seeking participants for NASA’s 2023 International Space Apps Challenge in Hawaiʻi during Oct. 7–8. This annual global hackathon aims to inspire collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking about space science and exploration....