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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...