Discovering new planets takes time and manpower — or, at least, a lot of the latter. Since July 2007, Zooniverse has provided a platform for citizen scientists (that’s any person with an interest in ...

This year’s Citizen Science Month may be winding down at the end of April, but you can help researchers collect and analyze their data all year long. This week, citizen science platform Zooniverse has ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Citizen science projects, where people with no formal training are asked to participate in research, have scored some notable successes. FoldIt, which makes a game out of solving the configuration of ...

To the world’s lengthening list of possible leisure-time activities, you can add this rather surprising one: Do hard-core, but not particularly hard, scientific research. Thanks to Zooniverse, a ...

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 ...

Dr. Laura Trouille, Director of Citizen Science at the Adler talks about what the 'Zooniverse' project — a people-powered research platform which includes 1.5 million amateur scientists discovering ...