Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

Monday’s eclipse is bringing together a diverse group of citizen scientists, working to collectively enhance our knowledge of the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere. Reading time 4 minutes Several ...

Ecologists are asking islanders to help track small mammals through a new citizen science project called Garden Paws.

Citizen science projects are meant to involve the public in research, but researchers are starting to ask if the name itself is exclusionary. Could "citizen" discourage Indigenous people and ...

Citizen science is a powerful tool for involving more people in research. By influencing policy, it is transforming ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

North Carolina State University researchers recently found that a program designed to get Girl Scouts involved in citizen science – programs where members of the public can participate in real ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology want your help studying galaxies far, far away. It may seem like something out of Star Wars, but the goal is to gather scientific information to learn ...

For many, the term “scientist” brings up images of people clad in white lab coats clutching glass tubes, gathering data that will appear in dense academic articles that most people can’t parse, let ...