The annual NASA Space Apps Challenge provides the opportunity to engage directly with NASA’s data, along with Space Agency Partner data. During the two-day hackathon, teams use this data to […]
citizen science
![Left panel: Image of the episodic wide-angle tailed radio galaxy (RGZ J082312.9+033301) discovered by the RGZ project from Banfield et al. (2016). Right Panel: A HyMoRS from the same RGZ project displaying FR-I nature on the southern and clear edge-brightened FR-II nature on the northern side from Kapińska et al. (2017). -- [astro-ph.GA]](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Citizen-Science.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
Posted inCitizen Science / Open Science
Citizen Science Research With The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)
[astro-ph.GA] Over the past two decades, internet-enabled citizen science research (CSR) has contributed to significant discoveries while involving millions of people in the research process.
Posted inCourses
Deep Learning for Astrophysics: An Open Textbook from the NASA Cosmic Origins AI/ML Science and Technology Interest Group
[astro-ph.IM] The astronomical community’s ability to use modern machine learning shapes the science return of upcoming facilities.
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NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Binaries Project
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs […]
Posted inTricorders & Sensors
How To Actually Build Your Own Working Tricorder
Editor’s note: Hamzah Abugosh has built a functional tricorder. I share the same fascination he has with the notion of a Tricorder as seen on Star Trek since I was […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Career Opportunities, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Status Report
Rocky Worlds DDT Community Involvement Initiative (CII)
The Rocky Worlds DDT Core Implementation Team is pleased to announce the launch of a new, community-led effort to enable collaboration and coordination around Rocky Worlds DDT science: the Rocky […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Status Report
Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge Is Now Open
The Rocky Worlds DDT Core Implementation Team (CIT) is pleased to announce that the Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge is now open.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Stellar Cartography
TESS Planet Hunter Reveals A Map Of The Dazzling Night Sky
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Intelligence & Language, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
Results Of Ten Tears Of UCLA SETI Searches With The Green Bank Telescope
We have been conducting a search for narrowband radio signals with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope (Margot et al., 2023). So far, […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Status Report, Stellar Cartography
Three Thousand Motion-Confirmed L and T Dwarf Candidates From The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project uses data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to detect infrared objects with significant motion.