Citizen Science

Citizen Science
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project.
Posted August 14, 2026
Citizen Science
Earth Science Division
Join a national community of precipitation reporters providing critical data to improve scientific understanding and forecasts.
Posted July 15, 2026
Citizen Science
The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world.
Posted July 10, 2026
Astrophysics Division
Brown Dwarfs
Citizen Science
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronomical objects are often hard to measure, but essential for understanding […]
Posted June 17, 2026
Astrophysics Division
Citizen Science
Help identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.
Posted June 2, 2026
Citizen Science
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has collected more than ten years of data from this zone – more than scientists can analyze alone. As Shock Detectives, you’ll help sort the chaotic from peaceful regions of the data, giving researchers a crucial set of clues.
Posted May 19, 2026
Citizen Science
Science & Research
Uncategorized
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists on those project teams.
Posted May 5, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Citizen Science
A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than stars.
Posted May 5, 2026
Citizen Science
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science!
Posted April 27, 2026
Citizen Science
Planetary Science
Uncategorized
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project scanned the Moon with their own telescopes and sent their videos to scientists to share what they saw from Earth.
Posted April 27, 2026
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