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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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How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World 

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive, enabling discoveries in almost every area of astronomy.

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This illustration depicts NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.

How NASA Science Data Defends Earth from Asteroids

NASA collects and shares data about near-Earth objects to identify any asteroids or comets that may pose a threat to Earth.

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Citizen Scientists Use NASA Open Science Data to Research Life in Space

The Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups invite volunteers from all backgrounds to help study how life can thrive in deep space.

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This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula.

Old Missions, New Discoveries: NASA’s Data Archives Accelerate Science

NASA's science data archives continually enable new scientific discoveries, with over 50% of scientific publications relying on archival data.

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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 101

Open Science 101 is a free curriculum designed to teach researchers, students, and the public about the principles and practice of open science.

Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun, showing a glowing, fiery orange and yellow solar surface with a grid-like texture representing the Sun's outer atmosphere. The spacecraft appears small, glowing white, and is positioned near the upper right corner, surrounded by the intense solar environment.

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.

Studying Biological Impacts of Space Radiation

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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