Citizen Science

You and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon.

Join a national community of precipitation reporters providing critical data to improve scientific understanding and forecasts.

Help read the story of galactic encounters in galaxy shapes. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Search for planets outside our solar system using data from NASA’s TESS mission. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Use data from NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission to shed light on solar storms. For anyone with a laptop or cell

Middle and high school teachers in the U.S.: your students can test plants for use in space missions. Kid friendly!

Help astronauts and life thrive in space using space biology and health data. Laptop required. Data science knowledge is helpful.

View candidate comets from Rubin Observatory and check them for tails. For anyone with a laptop or cell phone.

Map the Moon’s Molten Flows using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. For anyone with a laptop.

Track wildlife by classifying images captured on trail cameras. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Teachers and pilots near California’s San Joaquin Valley, help measure the quality of your air!

Photograph clouds just after sunset or before dawn to investigate our changing atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Classify images of galaxies taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

New Yorkers: Help scientists measure snow on the ground using your phone! For anyone in the Catskills or Adirondacks region.

Share your images of Jupiter and participate in the JunoCam mission. For anyone with a laptop.

Search space telescope images for white dwarfs that flash as they devour asteroids. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Map cloud formations in images of the Martian atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examine space telescope data to find special rare pairs of stars. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Discover Jupiter-like objects, balls of gas called brown dwarfs in our cosmic backyard. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Help decipher signals of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic and mysterious explosions in the universe!

Live near the Chesapeake Bay? Take water-quality data with your smartphone.

Live in Alaska? Report ice conditions to keep people safe and climate scientists informed.

Build your own radio telescope and study Jupiter, the Sun, the Earth’s Ionosphere, and the Milky Way galaxy.

Have a camera? Submit your own photographs of the colorful flashes of light seen above thunderclouds.

See a landslide or read about one? Submit your observations. For anyone with a laptop.

Teams from schools and communities: Search for asteroids and help keep Earth safe. Kid friendly!

Choose from several different projects to help scientists learn about planet Earth. For anyone with a smartphone. Kid friendly!

Discover asteroids and other small objects in the solar system. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Use your telescope to observe planets beyond our solar system. Unistellar telescope required.

Discover new comets near the Sun. For anyone with a laptop.

Clock the expansion of the universe using light from distant galaxies. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Near the mountains? Help climate scientists by using your cell phone to report rain and snow.

Visiting Antarctica? Investigate changes in phytoplankton along the western Antarctic Peninsula.

Amateur radio operators: help scientists study Earth’s ionosphere

Track new planets beyond our solar system using backyard telescope data. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Uncover dark energy, a mysterious force driving galaxies apart. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Search the realm beyond Neptune for new planets, nearby stars and more. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Submit your observations of the Northern and Southern lights.

Examine radio signals to help search for intelligent life beyond Earth. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Inspect images to find comet-like objects hiding in the asteroid belt. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Near a lake? Report the water level with your smartphone. Certain lakes only.

Search for dusty disks around stars where distant worlds form and dwell. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Trace exotic clouds in the Martian atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.