Here, we introduce five citizen science projects you can take part in. For most of them, all you need to get started is an ...

This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

Community science, also known as citizen science, is a powerful movement that bridges the gap between scientific research and ...

Monday’s eclipse is bringing together a diverse group of citizen scientists, working to collectively enhance our knowledge of the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere. Reading time 4 minutes Several ...

You don't have to be a professional scientist to make a contribution to our collective knowledge. Today, we look at several ...

Citizen science projects are meant to involve the public in research, but researchers are starting to ask if the name itself is exclusionary. Could "citizen" discourage Indigenous people and ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

North Carolina State University researchers recently found that a program designed to get Girl Scouts involved in citizen science – programs where members of the public can participate in real ...

For many, the term “scientist” brings up images of people clad in white lab coats clutching glass tubes, gathering data that will appear in dense academic articles that most people can’t parse, let ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology want your help studying galaxies far, far away. It may seem like something out of Star Wars, but the goal is to gather scientific information to learn ...