Cosmic detectives are being called on for an interstellar mission to hunt down thousands of invisible black holes lurking in ...
In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...
Teenager Quanzhi Ye made headlines by leveraging a citizen science initiative to identify a comet from spacecraft images. This remarkable achievement follows the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's ...
A citizen science project, which invites members of the public to take part in identifying cosmic explosions, has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries. More than 2,000 volunteers across ...
A newly discovered radio galaxy with a striking bow-and-arrow appearance is providing astronomers with an unprecedented view of a phenomenon that has long been predicted but rarely observed. The ...
Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...
A high school student discovered a comet using publicly available NASA spacecraft images, turning a school project into an astronomy career and major scientific recognition.
A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 “bubbles” in the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy. Hot, young stars blow these bubbles ...
From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...
MUSCAT: Youth should be encouraged to learn more about astronomy, space science and technology to help them take advantage of ...