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…
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…
Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II
What you’ll do: Learn how to recognize clumps, the bright spots in galaxies where stars are being formed…
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…
Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears
Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet.…
Hail Yeah! NASA Researchers Use Volunteer Observations for Hail Estimates
The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can…
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…
Coral colony discovered by mother and daughter citizen scientists could be world’s largest
Scientists have welcomed the “impressive” discovery of what is thought to be the largest coral colony on the…
Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project
A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it…