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Open Science at NASA
NASA is making a long-term commitment to building an inclusive 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, inclusive, accessible, 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 culture shift to a more inclusive, transparent, and collaborative scientific process, which will increase the pace and quality of scientific progress.
Open science Facts
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.
Take Open Science 101![Students sit in front of a panel of speakers at the Kennedy Space Center.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ksc-20230420-ph-csh01-0015orig.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Why Do Open Science?
● Broadens participation and fosters greater collaboration in scientific investigations by lowering the barriers to entry into scientific exploration
● Generates greater impact and more citations to scientific results
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Open Science Features and Events
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NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science
The projects selected for NASA's open science funding will improve research in areas such as galaxy simulations, biological space shuttle experiments, and geospatial analysis.
![Members of the NASA Impact and IBM Research teams accept their certificate after winning the NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ai-geospatial-team-award.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award
A team of researchers from NASA and IBM received recognition for their work on an open-source AI geospatial foundation model for Earth scientists.
![K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/pia20690orig.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research
The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Habitable Worlds Observatory will continue the established practice of including the public in exoplanet research.
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Meet NASA Interns Shaping Future of Open Science
Students at NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer (OCSDO) are working to promote open science in a variety of ways this summer, including policy, DEIA, and user experience.