NASA International Space Apps Challenge: A World Away: Hunting for Exoplanets with AI
Time: October 4th – 5th, 2025
On October 4-5, 2025, NASA and 14 Space Agency Partners invite scientists, technologists, and storytellers to participate in the 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge. Over the course of two days, teams will develop projects to address challenges using NASA’s open data and space-based data from Space Agency Partners.
With this year’s theme Learn, Launch, Lead:
- Learn skills to succeed in STEM fields
- Launch ideas that transform NASA’s open data into actionable tools
- Lead communities in driving technological innovation
Astrobiology Challenge Highlight: A World Away: Hunting for Exoplanets with AI
Data from several different space-based exoplanet surveying missions have enabled discovery of thousands of new planets outside our solar system, but most of these exoplanets were identified manually. With advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), it is possible to analyze large sets of data collected by these missions to identify exoplanets. Your challenge is to create an AI/ML model that is trained on one or more of the open-source exoplanet datasets offered by NASA, that can analyze new data to accurately identify exoplanets.
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