Citizen Science

Tim PeakePhoto credit: Esa.int ESA astronaut Tim Peake took 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station…

More than 1,500 people helped researchers count seals and sea lions on California’s Año Nuevo Island by studying…

A prominent study published in Science that linked China’s solar expansion to weaker bird diversity is under scrutiny…

How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that…

Tiger mosquitoes are one of the world’s most successful invasive species: hardy little striped suckers that have made…

The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an…

In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight…

On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s (UF) Marston…

Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of…

The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina…

Scientists have welcomed the “impressive” discovery of what is thought to be the largest coral colony on the…

In 2015, 2kg of rocket seeds went to the space station; after their return, 600,000 UK children helped test them, and researchers found they grew more slowly but remained viable