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Citizen Science Highlights

NASA needs your help! You can collaborate with professional scientists, conduct cutting-edge science, and make real discoveries. A science degree is not required, just a passion for understanding the natural world. Here, you can read news about NASA-funded citizen science projects, new discoveries, and opportunities to get involved. For more information on current citizen science projects.

NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars
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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…

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Live or Fly a Plane in California? Help NASA Measure Ozone Pollution!
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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…

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Summer Students Scan the Radio Skies with SunRISE
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Solar radio bursts, intense blasts of radio emission associated with solar flares, can wreak havoc on global navigation systems. Now, as part of the Ground Radio Lab campaign led by the University of Michigan and NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer…

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Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds 
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Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below the horizon. These ice clouds typically occur near the North and South Poles…

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Amateur Radio Scientists Shine at the 2025 HamSCI Workshop
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Love Ham Radio? The HamSCI project fosters collaboration between amateur radio operators and professional researchers. Its goals are to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities, encourage the development of modern technologies to support this research, and provide…

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How to Contribute to Citizen Science with NASA
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A cell phone, a computer—and your curiosity—is all you need to become a NASA citizen scientist and contribute to projects about Earth, the solar system, and beyond. Science is built from small grains of sand, and you can contribute yours…

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Help Classify Galaxies Seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope!
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NASA needs your help identifying the shapes of thousands of galaxies in images taken by our James Webb Space Telescope with the Galaxy Zoo project. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed…

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First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
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How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth? The Eclipse Soundscapes project invited you to document changes in the environment during the week of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, using…

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Join our Virtual Do NASA Science LIVE Event on April 10!
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April is Citizen Science Month! NASA, SciStarter, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences, invite you to celebrate with us.  Join us for a free, online interactive citizen science event on April 10…

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Citizen Scientists Use NASA Open Science Data to Research Life in Space
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How can life thrive in deep space? The Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups invite volunteers from all backgrounds to help answer this question. Request to join these citizen science groups to help investigate how life adapts to space environments,…

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