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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 Science Features and Events

An artist's concept composed of cool blues and greens with orange accent colors depicting a plain clothed female astronaut reading a tablet while floating in front of the cupola window on the International Space Station. Biological and Physical Science experiments surround the left side of the window. A strand of DNA provides a lattice for green plants, yellow mustard flowers, red peppers, and orange Zinnia flowers to grow. Glowing molecules and atoms float around the lattice. The Earth (left) and Moon (right) are visible outside the window. A small red star, representing Mars seen at center. The window provides a spherical frame for the composition, fading to black at the edges.

Open Science Enables Study of Genetic Changes in Microgravity

PhD candidate Konstantinos Adamopoulos used open data from NASA's GeneLab to compare genetic changes in mice and humans during spaceflight.

Images incorporating science data from the James Webb Space Telescope are projected onto the walls of a large room as part of a digital art piece. Seven guests stand in the room watching the show.

NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Art

Numerous artists have incorporated NASA science data into their work, further engaging the public in science discovery.

A light blue circular graphic identifier, which contains stars, a satellite, and a DNA strand. A jagged graph line cutting through the middle of the circle represents NASA science data. Everything lies on a dark blue background.

OCSDO Releases Year in Review 2024 Newsletter

The Office of the Chief Science Data Officer (OCSDO) shared its annual accomplishments in promoting NASA science data discovery and innovation.

An image of Earth from space showing the swirling clouds of a hurricane forming over the ocean with a robotic arm extending from the International Space Station.

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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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.