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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-source science is a commitment to the open sharing of software, data, and knowledge (algorithms, papers, documents, ancillary information) as early as possible in the scientific process.

Open Principles

The principles of open-source science are to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, available, and reproducible. Advances in technology, including collaborative tools and cloud computing, help enable open-source science, but technology alone is insufficient. Open-source 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.

Learn More About Open Science

NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative helps people understand and implement open science practices in their own work. This initiative created Open Science 101, a free online training course to give researchers, academics, and the public a practical working knowledge of open science principles. 

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OCSDO Releases Year in Review 2024 Newsletter

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NASA AI, Open Science Advance Natural Disaster Research and Recovery

NASA’s artificial intelligence weather models and open data practices help researchers monitor hurricanes and other disasters.

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NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

NASA awarded $15.6 million to 15 projects supporting open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community.

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How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research

The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Habitable Worlds Observatory will continue including the public in exoplanet research.

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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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