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Open Science at NASA

NASA is making a long-term commitment to building an open science community over the next decade. Open science is a collaborative culture enabled by technology that empowers the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge within the scientific community and the wider public to accelerate scientific research and understanding.

Open Principles

The principles of open science are to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, available, and reproducible. Advances in technology, including collaborative tools and cloud computing, help enable open science, but technology alone is insufficient. Open science requires a shift to a more transparent and collaborative scientific process, which will increase the pace and quality of scientific progress.

Open science Facts

Open Transparent Science
Scientific processes and results should be as open as possible to encourage further study and increase public trust.

<strong>Open Transparent Science<br></strong>Scientific processes and results should be as open as possible to encourage further study and increase public trust.

Open Available Science
Data, tools, software, documentation, and publications should be available to all (FAIR).

<strong>Open Available Science<br></strong>Data, tools, software, documentation, and publications should be available to all (FAIR).

Open Reproducible Science
Scientific process and results should be open such that they are reproducible by members of the community.

<strong>Open Reproducible Science<br></strong>Scientific process and results should be open such that they are reproducible by members of the community.

Open Collaborative Science
Processes and participants should welcome participation by and collaboration with other researchers and organizations.

<strong>Open Collaborative Science<br></strong>Processes and participants should welcome participation by and collaboration with other researchers and organizations.

Open Science Features and Events

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Poynting crater and Keeler crater are visible side by side in the lower right portion of this image of the Moon’s far side highlands. Poynting, positioned above, is a large impact crater with a well-defined rim and relatively smooth interior, indicative of material that has settled following the initial impact. Just below it, Keeler crater appears slightly smaller, with a sharply outlined rim and a more textured interior shaped by subsequent impacts and ejecta. Both features lie within the densely cratered far side highlands, preserving a record of ancient impacts that have shaped the lunar surface over billions of years.

NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords

The science from every rock sample, lunar dataset, and discovery produced via NASA’s Artemis program will be shared with the global scientific community.

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Earth sets over the horizon of the crater-speckled far side of the moon.

NASA Science Mission Directorate Releases New Strategy for Accelerating Scientific Discovery

The Science Mission Directorate's Strategy for Data Management and Computing 2025–2030 is now available to read online.

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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries

Data collected by NASA's missions about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will continue to reveal insights about the comet and interstellar objects at large.

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NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data

Trained on open data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model validates new planets with its algorithm.

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This artist's impression is of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019.

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Open Science Training

Ready to make your research more transparent, impactful, and accessible? Our Open Science Essentials and Open Science 101 courses are the perfect starting point for researchers and managers of all disciplines.

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Science Information Policy

The information produced as part of NASA’s scientific research activities represents a significant public investment. Learn more about how and when it should be shared.

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Open Science Funding

NASA supports open science through call for new innovative programs, supplements to existing awards, and sustainability of software.

Office of the Chief Science Data Officer

The Office of the Chief Science Data Officer (OCSDO) works to advance transformative open science as part of its activities.

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Open Earth Science

Learn about openly available science data and services provided by NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program.

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Open Life Sciences

The NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) enables access to space-related data from experiments and missions that investigate biological and health responses of terrestrial life to spaceflight.

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Science Mission Directorate Science Data

The Science Data Portal provides a comprehensive list of NASA science data repositories.

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