NASA Space Technology Game Changing Program Solicitation for Ultralightweight Core Materials for Efficient Load-Bearing Composite Sandwich Structures – NASA is seeking proposals to develop and manufacture ultralightweight materials for aerospace vehicles and…
Deadline Extended: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, announce an authentic science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or…
Remote Sensing of Exoplanets
“A two day long winter school on Remote Sensing of Exoplanets will be held at our University on December 4th and 5th, aimed primarily at graduate students involved in hysperspectral remote sensing…
2015 ESA App Camp
“Apply today for the 2015 ESA App Camp in Barcelona, and the opportunity to develop mobile apps that tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. This unique app development event offers access…
Crowdsourcing Helps Discover 49th Radio pulsar: PSR J1910+07
“Einstein@Home currently processes PALFA Mock spectrometer data from Arecibo Observatory. This search run is called “BRP4” (short for Binary Radio Pulsar search #4). It uses the computing power donated by volunteers from…
DIY Exoplanet Detector
“I discovered that one amateur astronomer had already posted online about how he had detected a known exoplanet using a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera outfitted with a telephoto lens. He was…
LittleBits Used To Build Space Robotic Arm
“There were plenty of engineering-themed toys on view at this weekend’s Toy and Game Fair in Chicago, but none of them came close to NASA’s contribution in terms of sheer cred. On…
1964 NASA Citizen Science: Looking for Moon Rocks in Iowa
“4-H groups were soon cratering their neighborhoods and farmers tilling their fields in search of otherworldly harvest. The project surely marks the only official liaison between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
Challenge: Reducing Galactic Cosmic Rays to Enable Long Duration Deep Space Human Exploration
NASA is looking for ways to reduce astronauts’ exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) while on long duration deep space missions. Currently, exposure to GCR limits mission duration to approximately 150 days…
Registration for NASA 2015 History of Winter Program Workshop
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Education and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory invite you to participate in the upcoming 2015 History of Winter professional development “teacher-as-scientist” workshop. This week of training,…
Student's Innovative DIY Microscope
Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a PhD student from Brunel University London who hacked his…
NASA Opens Cube Quest Challenge
Registration now is open for NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge, the agency’s first in-space competition that offers the agency’s largest-ever prize purse. Competitors have a shot at a share of $5 million in…