“This week, NASA released its second annual Software Catalog, a giant compendium of over 1,000 programs available for free to industry, government agencies, and the general public. The Software Catalog contains the…
Student Wins Prize For Experiment at ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge
“High-school student Arthur Admiraal has been awarded the prestigious Hugo van Woerden Prize by the Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy (KNVWS). He has been honoured for an experiment he performed…
MOOC on Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is everywhere. From your smartphone to your tablet, location enabled devices are present in almost every household. With over 80% of all data having some type of spatial…
Vanderbilt Aerospace Club wins NASA Student Launch Challenge for Third Time
“For the third year in a row, the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has won NASA’s eight-month long rocketry competition – the 2014-15 Student Launch Challenge – beating out 30 other university and college…
Abstract Call: 2015 IAF-SUAC International Student Workshop
“The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is pleased to open a call for abstracts for the 2015 IAF-SUAC International Student Workshop.The International Astronautical Federation and the Space University Administrative Committee (SUAC) organizes for…
Registration Open For LunGradCon 2015
“Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2015) to be held on Monday, July 20, 2015 at the NASA Ames Research Center, preceding the…
Send Your Drawing Into Space With Cheops
“Do you want to send your art into space on the new Cheops satellite? ESA and its mission partners are inviting children to submit drawings that will be miniaturised and engraved on…
VPL Astrobiology Colloquium: Self-Organizing Chemical Systems: From Materials Science to Astrobiology
Self-organizing processes in chemical reaction/precipitation systems can lead to a variety of complex structures, including chemical gardens and inorganic membranes. They key aspects of these systems are the steep concentration gradients and…
Summer School: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Habitable Planets
Interested researchers and students are invited to apply for the summer school “Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Habitable Planets”, which will take place in Moletai, Lithuania (close to Vilnius) from…
NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge
“NASA is embarking on an ambitious journey to Mars and Tuesday announced a challenge inviting the public to write down their ideas, in detail, for developing the elements of space pioneering necessary…
NASA Citizen Science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools
“The Citizen science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools (CADET) is a joint solicitation of the Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC)…
Free Online ESA Course: Monitoring Climate from Space MOOC
“Registration is open for a free online course that provides an introduction to monitoring climate change using satellite Earth observation. ESA has teamed up with FutureLearn, a leading online learning platform, to…