Citizen Science

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

A circular feature first noticed by an amateur astronomer planning a camping trip in Quebec has turned out…

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

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

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number…

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…

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

The monarch butterfly is iconic in North America — but in Montana, it is a rare sight. That’s…

Queensland insect enthusiasts are using their cameras to help researchers study bug populations, as part of a national…

CROOK COUNTY, Ore. — Bird watching is not always a fair-weather activity. Some of the most scientifically important…

For lovers of cool astronomy and math, this finding is a real treat. Citizen astronomers stumbled upon not…

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