#citizen science

Volunteers working through NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have identified more than 3,000 new brown dwarfs over a decade, dramatically expanding one of astronomy’s most elusive catalogs.

The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has released a much larger dataset, and astronomers are asking the public to help identify the arcs and rings of gravitational lensing hidden inside it.

Videos from volunteer skywatchers helped scientists compare lunar impact flashes seen from Earth with observations made during Artemis II, and NASA says the project is only beginning.

NASA's Daily Minor Planet citizen science project has expanded to include data from the powerful Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak, enabling detection of near-Earth asteroids two to three times fainter than before.

NASA citizen scientists have found that solar active regions lasting more than a month produce up to six times more intense solar flares than typical regions — with major implications for space weather forecasting.