Past winners
The ten 2025 global winners, from NASA's announcement. Each is linked to the 2026 challenges it most resembles, which is my judgment, not NASA's.
| Team | Award | 2025 challenge | Similar 2026 challenges |
|---|---|---|---|
| SpaceGenes+ Germany | Best Use of Science | Build a Space Biology Knowledge Engine | Health Monitoring Software for Astronauts on Space Missions Flame in Freefall |
| Resonant Exoplanets United States | Best Use of Data | A World Away: Hunting for Exoplanets with AI | Planet X and SPHEREx |
| Twisters Mexico | Best Use of Technology | Will It Rain on My Parade? | Earth System Trend Detective |
| Astro Sweepers Universal Event | Galactic Impact | Commercializing LEO | Space Mission Design Game |
| PureFlow Brazil | Best Mission Concept | Your Home in Space: The Habitat Layout Creator | Junior Astronaut Mission Trainer Space Mission Design Game |
| Photonics Odyssey India | Most Inspirational | Commercializing LEO | Space Mission Design Game |
| HerCode Space Universal Event | Best Use of Storytelling | Stellar Stories: Space Weather Through the Eyes of Earthlings | Abandoned but not Forgotten Earth Information Jukebox |
| Gaia+LEO United States | Global Connection | Commercializing LEO | Space Mission Design Game |
| Zumorroda-X Egypt | Art & Technology | NASA Farm Navigators | Field Shift Junior Astronaut Mission Trainer |
| QUEÑARIS Peru | Local Impact | BloomWatch | Field Shift Earth System Trend Detective |