Astronomy is entering a new regime of “big data.” The volumes of information being collected are staggering, and future projects promise data sets of ever-increasing size. The total data volume of the ...

In 2007, Chicago’s Adler Planetarium teamed up with the University of Oxford in England to create “Zooniverse”, an outreach program joining citizen scientists with professional researchers working in ...

Planetary Resources announced today that it has teamed up with Zooniverse to create Asteroid Zoo, a web app that allows people to search for asteroids by flipping through pictures collected by the ...

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, along with its Zooniverse team and the team from the University of Minnesota, and NASA are pleased to announce a new partnership leveraging world-leading expertise across ...

As school winds down and we head into summer, it’s a great chance to dip a toe into scientific research that you can do with just an internet connection and a curious mind. The Zooniverse program at ...

Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, and Zooniverse today launched Asteroid Zoo, empowering students, citizen scientists and space enthusiasts to aid in the search for previously ...

The Milky Way Project has been live since December 7th and is still going strong, taking data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and asking you all to help us map the ...

Citizen scientists can help track the progress of a new population of tortoises in the Galapagos with the Giant Tortoise Initiative on Zooniverse. Finches may have been the key to Darwin's theory of ...

This video is part of a series brought to you by Intel and Vox Creative. There are people online who are donating their brain power and their time, sharing their knowledge to make the world a smarter ...

“You don’t have to be a scientist, or even have a background in the field, to do science.” On June 9, at the 'Citizen Science and Journalism' session of the World Conference of Science Journalists, ...

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