Citizen Science

Representative Image of fluorescent scorpions glowing across a desert landscape after dark (AI-generated image) In 1945, an Arizona…

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…

What you’ll do: Learn how to recognize clumps, the bright spots in galaxies where stars are being formed…

After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have…

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

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused…

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet.…

Moon jellyfish were the most commonly sighted jellyfish over 2024-2025 (Photo: Peter Bardsley/MCS) To help scientists learn more…

The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can…

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…

In 1945, an Arizona professor started hunting glowing scorpions at night; decades later his laboratory had become a major centre for venom research |