A peer-reviewed article, Crowdsourcing Star-Formation Research and the Power of Participatory Science, was published as a part of the 2024 Astronomy Prize Awardees Collection in the Springer Astrophysics and Space Science Journal. The article details the Milky Way Project’s contributions to our understanding of star formation and describes how Zooniverse projects have been used to engage different communities, such as seminaries, youth, and interfaith groups, in participatory (“people-powered”) science.

Are you looking for a Zooniverse project in a language other than English? Here is the latest update on what is available, as of 1 October 2025. Many thanks to our amazing volunteers - project translators. Do you want to become a Zooniverse translator? Are you a research team member looking to translate your project? Here is what you need to know…

Join Zooniverse volunteers and astronomy enthusiasts worldwide in celebrating 100 Hours of Astronomy, a global festival of skywatching and science, from 2 October to 5 October, 2025.

A new study in Nature's Scientific Reports shows that citizen scientists can reliably count endangered Galápagos marine iguanas from drone images, offering a fast and cost-effective tool for wildlife monitoring. Figure 1. Drone image from the project “Iguanas from Above”, taken at Cabo Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. Through the online project “Iguanas from Above”, hosted on the Zooniverse.org platform, over 13,000 volunteers analysed almost 58,000 images collected across seven islands of the archipelago.

Cover photo subject (via Talk). Congratulations are due to the research team behind Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes, who have a new publication out in Nature: Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA. Thanks especially to the 3,000+ Zooniverse volunteers who contributed more than 450,000 classifications to this project between March of 2021 and August of 2023.

Here is the latest list of Zooniverse projects available in languages other than English. Many thanks to our amazing volunteers who contributed.

This post is a follow-up to our January 2024 post, "Zooniverse Receives NEH Grant to Evaluate Transcription Tools," which you can read here. In January 2024, we received a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to allow Zooniverse team members to carry out an evaluative study of the underlying code, functionality, and user interface of our main tools for text transcription and analysis.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a powerful new facility high in the dry Chilean mountains. Today, on 23 June 2025, for the first time, it is releasing images from its Legacy Survey of Space and Ti…

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