This year's challenges
NASA has released 18 global challenges spanning Earth science, space exploration, AI, and more. Pick one and build something that matters.
Icy investigations
Use satellite data to track changes in polar ice sheets and predict future patterns of ice loss affecting coastal communities.
Community mapping
Build tools that empower local communities to map environmental risks using open geospatial data from NASA satellites.
Eclipses & exoplanets
Create interactive visualizations that help the public understand how astronomers discover and characterize distant worlds.
Leveraging AI for Earth
Apply machine learning techniques to NASA Earth observation data to solve pressing environmental and climate challenges.
Tell us a climate story
Transform complex climate datasets into compelling narratives that inspire action and make science accessible to everyone.
Orbital debris tracker
Design a solution to track, catalog, or mitigate space debris using open orbital data and creative engineering approaches.
Agricultural forecast
Combine satellite imagery with weather data to build tools that help farmers make better planting and harvesting decisions.
Ocean worlds
Explore data from missions studying the subsurface oceans of moons like Europa and Enceladus to imagine future exploration tools.
Navigator for the stars
Build a navigation system or planning tool for deep-space missions using real ephemeris data and orbital mechanics.