Citizen Science
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public.
Citizen Science Projects
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 410 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications. Want to work on some real NASA science? Click on one of the 41 projects below to get started. NASA citizen science projects are open to everyone around the world, not limited to U.S. citizens or residents.
Cloudspotting on Mars
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Dark Energy Explorers
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Exoplanet Watch
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Are we alone in the universe?
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Aurorasaurus
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Disk Detective
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Solar Active Region Spotter
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project.
GLOBE Observer: Clouds, Land Cover, Mosquito Habitats
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project.
Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project.
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Active Asteroids
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Solar Jet Hunter
Anyone with a cellphone or laptop can do this project. Read Project Summary
Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics
Anyone with a laptop can do this project.
Fresh Eyes on Ice
Chesapeake Water Watch
Growing Beyond Earth
Mountain Rain or Snow
International Astronomical Search Collaboration
Anyone with a laptop can do this project.
Community Snow Observations
Soundscapes to Landscapes
Air Quality Citizen Science
Radio JOVE
Eclipse Soundscapes
Eclipse Megamovie
Spritacular
Citizen Science Stories
Backyard Worlds Volunteers Complete Ten Million Classifications in an Epic Search for New Objects Among the Nearest Stars
Solar Jet Hunter is Back, with New Data and New Features!
Six Growing Beyond Earth Student Teams to Present at the 2023 American Association for Gravitational and Space Research Conference
