Major milestone recorded as part of nationwide Bug Hunt, a win for citizen science
When Jess Ward-Jones was a child, roaming through nature every weekend in search of curious critters was a…
NASA Volunteers Help Zooniverse Reach 1 Billion Classifications
The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an…
Frankston beer microbiologist’s orchid hobby is helping document rare species
It is the middle of winter and Robert Mitchell is snapping photos of flora in Frankston. It is…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Researchers uncover longest whale journey ever documented with fluke photos
Record distances travelled by whale populations have been discovered in research published today. Using citizen science platform Happywhale,…
First photo of wild Myrmeleon houstoni taken by unsuspecting Mildura woman on bushwalk
When Judy Allen took her camera along for a bushwalk through some scrub near Red Cliffs last February,…
650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have…
You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight…
Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused…
Festival encourages people to see seaweed’s ‘importance and beauty’
South Australia’s south-east coast is known for being rough and rugged, with cold water smashing into limestone cliffs.…
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of…
Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina…