Citizen Science

Citizen Science
On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona.
Posted February 24, 2026
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Science Activation
A group of elementary-aged students gather outside of Oldham County Public Library in La Grange, Kentucky, United States to look at clouds in the sky. “If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them, ‘I am a citizen scientist and I am helping NASA,’” Children’s Programming Librarian, Cheri Grinnell, tells the kids. Grinnell supports an […]
Posted November 25, 2025
Citizen Science
NASA’s Toolkit for Librarians can help you share NASA citizen science opportunities with your patrons and community members. Rural and urban libraries, informal educators, youth group leaders, and retirement community coordinators can all benefit from this resource.
Posted November 24, 2025
Citizen Science
NASA has selected 10 new citizen science proposals for funding in 2025. These selections provide a preview of what’s coming next for NASA citizen science.
Posted November 20, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Citizen Science
Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts, but volunteers from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups (OSDR-AWG) are working together to analyze data on astronaut health.
Posted September 22, 2025
Citizen Science
Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners!
Posted September 16, 2025
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Ice & Glaciers
Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience.
Posted July 9, 2025
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Binary Stars
Citizen Science
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other’s light each time it swings around, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs – 10,001 to be precise. These objects will help future researchers study […]
Posted June 26, 2025
Citizen Science
Earth Science Division
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
Ozone high in the stratosphere protects us from the Sun’s ultraviolet light. But ozone near the ground is a pollutant that harms people and plants. The San Joaquin Valley has some of the most polluted air in the country, and NASA scientists with the new Ozone Where We Live (OWWL) project are working to measure […]
Posted June 24, 2025
Citizen Science
Heliophysics
SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)
Solar radio bursts, intense blasts of radio emission associated with solar flares, can wreak havoc on global navigation systems.
Posted May 28, 2025
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