NASA is looking for ways to reduce astronauts’ exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) while on long duration deep space missions. Currently, exposure to GCR limits mission duration to approximately 150 days…
Category: Crowdsourcing
MilkyWay@home
MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project that allows people from every country in the world to volunteer their otherwise idle processors to Milky Way research. Currently, more than 25,000 people (150,000 since…
SETI Institute Hosts Asteroid Hackathon
“The SETI Institute has partnered withEchoUser, SpaceGAMBIT, Maui Makers, the Minor Planet Center, NASA, and Further by Design to host an Asteroid Hackathon on Saturday, Oct. 25. Using the world’s best sources for asteroid data, hackers from all…
NASA OpenNEX Data Challenge
Description: Seeking creative new ways to utilize the Climate and Earth Science data recently made available on the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX) platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sponsoring Organization: NASA,…
Crowdsourcing Extrasolar Planet Naming
Register Now to Enter NameExoWorlds Contest, IAU “The IAU invites all public organizations with an interest in astronomy to register on the IAU Directory for World Astronomy website for the NameExoWorlds contest,…
After ISEE-3: What Other Old Space Stuff Might Be Rebooted?
Space: the financial frontier – how citizen scientists took control of a spaceship, The Conversation Although ultimately short-lived, the ISEE-3 project demonstrated the enthusiasm and resources available for private space endeavours. What…
International Space Apps Challenge
Join us for Space Apps 2015 “NASA and other space agencies around the world are preparing for the next International Space Apps Challenge. The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass…
Citizen Science and Astronomy
Commons at the Intersection of Peer Production, Citizen Science, and Big Data: Galaxy Zoo “The knowledge commons research framework is applied to a case of commons governance grounded in research in modern…
Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data
Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery “Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently ‘hot’ field of studying variability…
Earth Science Challenges and Crowdsourcing From NASA
NASA Picks Top Earth Data Challenge Ideas, Opens Call for Climate Apps “NASA has selected four ideas from the public for innovative uses of climate projections and Earth-observing satellite data. The agency…
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy, Hannah E. Harris, Pedro Russo “Public engagement (PE) initiatives can lead to a long term public support of science. However most of the…
Citizen Science and Interstellar Dust
Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed “With the help of a distributed science project called Stardust@home, volunteer space enthusiasts from around the world combed through the video, flagging tracks they believed were created…