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What is the Zooniverse?

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The Zooniverse is the world's largest platform for people-powered research. We connect professional researchers with millions of volunteers worldwide. Facilitating real results from impractical, or otherwise impossible research. This has led to new discoveries, policy impacts, and research publications.

Our platform is driven by volunteers, like you. All ages and backgrounds are welcome to participate, no PhD required — just a sense of wonder and a few clicks. Many of the most interesting findings from Zooniverse projects have emerged from discussions between volunteers and researchers. Join us today to take part in cutting-edge research and make your own discoveries!

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From classifying animals to discovering exoplanets to transcribing historical documents, and more, researchers across the disciplines have used the Project Builder to create engaging, accessible projects. Anyone can build a Zooniverse project. Simply upload your data, choose the tasks you want the volunteers to do, and join us in nurturing an inclusive and welcoming online community engaged in real research.

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Transcription Tool Evaluation – Project Results
19 days ago

Transcription Tool Evaluation – Project Results

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 […]

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NASA live event with Marc Kuchner
3 months ago

NASA live event with Marc Kuchner

In celebration of Citizen Science Month, NASA’s Twitch Channel has invited American astronomer Marc Kuchner to join a one-hour online event on April 29 from 4-5 pm ET. In this interactive session, you will have a chance to contribute to fun, beginner-friendly volunteer projects, make measurements together live on-air, and ask questions throughout the show. […]

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Euclid first data release
4 months ago

Euclid first data release

The team behind the Euclid observatory released their first data yesterday, and Zooniverse projects and participants were especially prominent. Euclid’s mission is to make a map of the whole sky which can be used for cosmology, to determine the factors governing the evolution of the Universe on the grandest scales – and along the way […]

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Around the Zoo – Chimp & See
5 months ago

Around the Zoo – Chimp & See

Did you know Zooniverse had its own YouTube channel? We are now back with our popular series Around the Zoo – videos where Zooniverse researchers speak in depth about their projects. Watch the latest video for a fascinating insight into the Chimp & See team work: Link: http://zooniverse.org/projects/sassydumbledore/chimp-and-see/ Are you a project owner or collaborator […]

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The Zooniverse Blog

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AI Ethics Workshop Series: Update #1
6 days ago

AI Ethics Workshop Series: Update #1

This post is part of our Kavli Foundation-funded series, Ethical Considerations for Machine Learning in Public-Engaged Research. Read our project announcement blog post here. We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the first of four surveys to help shape the future of AI and public-engaged research. We received over 1000 responses to the first […]

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Zooniverse translated projects list
14 days ago

Zooniverse translated projects list

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

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Who translates Zooniverse?
14 days ago

Who translates Zooniverse?

All Zooniverse projects are created in English. But many of them are available in different languages. Everyone can become a translator on Zooniverse! But how do you do that? We talked with some of our amazing volunteers who helped various research teams to translate their projects, and here is what we’ve learned.

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Vera Rubin Observatory: “First Look” Into The Cosmos
22 days ago

Vera Rubin Observatory: “First Look” Into The Cosmos

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 Time camera. At 3200 megapixels, this largest camera ever built will allow us to see the universe in a new way. And with Zooniverse, everyone can join and help with discoveries!

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