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 ...

Exoplanet Explorers, a project devoted to finding new planets, identified this one called K2-288Bb. It is slightly smaller than Neptune. About 226 light-years away, it orbits the fainter member of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planetary Resources announced today that it has teamed up with Zooniverse to create Asteroid Zoo, a web app that allows people to search for asteroids by flipping through pictures collected by the ...

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 ...

Dr. Laura Trouille, Director of Citizen Science at the Adler talks about what the 'Zooniverse' project — a people-powered research platform which includes 1.5 million amateur scientists discovering ...

Now you can join the hunt for potentially hazardous — or incredibly valuable — asteroids. The asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources and citizen-science site Zooniverse have teamed up to launch ...