Zooniverse​ at the Adler Planetarium​ allows the everyday person to contribute directly to real scientific research.

Discovering new planets takes time and manpower — or, at least, a lot of the latter. Since July 2007, Zooniverse has provided a platform for citizen scientists (that’s any person with an interest in ...

Zooniverse is a revolutionary citizen science initiative led by Chicago’s Adler Planetarium and the University of Oxford. The platform hosts a wide range of projects that allow anyone, of any age and ...

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 ...

The Milky Way Project has been live since December 7th and is still going strong, taking data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and asking you all to help us map the ...

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 ...

This year’s Citizen Science Month may be winding down at the end of April, but you can help researchers collect and analyze their data all year long. This week, citizen science platform Zooniverse has ...