Experiments on the Zooniverse
Occasionally we run studies in collaboration with external researchers in order to better understand our community and improve our platform. These can involve methods such as A/B splits, where we show...
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We recently uncovered a couple of bugs in the Zooniverse code which meant that the wrong question text may have been shown to some volunteers on Zooniverse projects while they were classifying. They...
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Exoplanet Explorers Discoveries – A Sixth Planet in the K2-138 System
This is the first of two guest posts from the Exoplanet Explorers research team announcing two new planets discovered by their Zooniverse volunteers. This post was written by Jessie Christiansen. Hello...
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Exoplanet Explorers Discoveries – A Small Planet in the Habitable Zone
This post is by Adina Feinstein. Adina is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on detecting and characterizing exoplanets. Adina became involved with the Exoplanet...
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28 New Planet Candidates Discovered on Exoplanet Explorers
The team behind the Exoplanet Explorers project has just published a Research Note of the American Astronomical Society announcing the discovery of 28 new exoplanet candidates uncovered by Zooniverse...
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CELEBRATING CITIZEN SCIENCE DAY 2019, PT. 5
This coming Saturday 13th April is Citizen Science Day, an ‘annual event to celebrate and promote all things citizen science’. Here at the Zooniverse, one of our team members will be posting each day...
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Zooniverse is 10 today!
Zooniverse is ten years old! On 12th December 2009, Zooniverse.org sputtered into life, celebrated with a post on this very blog (https://blog.zooniverse.org/2009/12/12/the-zooniverse-is-go/). Truth...
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Zooniverse Volunteers Discover More New Worlds
The volunteers on our Planet Hunters TESS project have helped discover another planetary system! The new system, HD 152843, consists of two planets that are similar in size to Neptune and Saturn in...
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Happy New Year & YouTube livestream this Thursday
Happy New Year Everyone! We can’t thank you enough for making Zooniverse possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! We have so much to celebrate from 2023. We welcomed our 2.5 millionth registered...
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Freshening up the Zooniverse Homepage
The Zooniverse has come a long way since beginning our journey together in 2009 – from the launch of the Project Builder to supporting diverse task types across the disciplines, including...
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