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 ...

Recently, Adam Stevens looked at where crowdsourcing ends and citizen science begins and raised his doubt that the projects in the Zooniverse qualify as citizen science. According to Stevens, ...

Amateur astronomers in Russia made a discovery last week any professional would envy – it seems they may have identified the remnants of the ill-fated Soviet Mars 3 lander, 30 years after it lost ...

We sometimes look back fondly on the old days where you could–it seems–pretty easily invent or discover something new. It probably didn’t seem so easy then, but there was a time when working out how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, astronomers found themselves burdened with a tricky problem. Having surveyed the night skies in a project known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, they were faced with the giant task of ...

As part of the TED Prize Wish made by renowned astronomer Jill Tarter, the TED Prize today launches SETI Live (setilive.org): a site where – for the first time – the public can view data being ...