This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

Ever wondered what it might feel like to spot giant spider crabs while you’re snorkelling? Or check plants for the circular ...

Citizen science offers people something simple but powerful: a reason to step outside, pay attention, and reconnect with the ...

Equipped with smartphones, computers and do-it-yourself sampling kits, lay volunteers are tweeting about snowfall, questing for comets and measuring the microbes in their guts. They are part of a ...

For many, the term “scientist” brings up images of people clad in white lab coats clutching glass tubes, gathering data that will appear in dense academic articles that most people can’t parse, let ...