Join the new Lunar Melt #citizenscience project and measure rocks and craters in images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to investigate the Moon's massive rock flows. Sign up at mappers.psi.edu! Led by Kirby Runyon & @starstryder.space @psi.edu.

Get a kick out of gravitational waves? Yes you can! #astronomy #news

Bad news for astronauts: citizen scientists find that space salads cause leaky gut syndrome. You can join the team here! science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #citizenscience #news

Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads science.nasa.gov/science-rese... #participatoryscience #astronaut #scienceathome #news

Each NASA-supported citizen science project has a summary page telling you the task you'll do as a volunteer, what's required of you, and how to get started. E.g., Snapshot Wisconsin invites you to inspect trail camera images for roaming wildlife. science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #scienceathome

Busy today planning my event next Saturday, 9/27/2025, 4:00pm at An Unlikely Story bookstore, 111 South St. Plainville, MA. 02762. We're going to crash things together and blow stuff up in outer space!!! Get tickets here! #family #fun anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/kuchner

Thanks to Astronomy Magazine for this review of Cosmic Collisions: Supergiant vs. Neutron Star! www.astronomy.com/observing/ne...

This system really should go into the exoplanet catalogs, don't you think? It's a 12 to 39 Jupiter-mass primary and a 7 to 24 Jupiter-mass secondary. #astronomy #news arxiv.org/abs/2508.17176

Congrats to planet hunters everywhere! #astronomy #news

Educators, join this NASA Citizen Science webinar series: Teaching with EMERGE & GLOBE Mission Mosquito! science.nasa.gov/get-involved...

Remembering Robert Redford.

What’s the world’s oldest crater? #astronomy #geology #news

Congrats to NASA volunteers and the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) project! They received a major spotlight – a full eighteen pages, plus the cover photo – in the August 2025 issue of QST, the official magazine of the National Association for Amateur Radio.

Heading over to Barrington Public Library in Barrington RI today for their first ever Book Expo! 10am to 2pm.

Why are folks excited about this week’s black hole merger? #astronomy #news #scicomm

New NASA toolkit for librarians! nasacitsci.gmri.org/2025-series/... Bring NASA Science into you library! Toolkit for Librarians: Building community and science literacy through NASA citizen science projects

"...it slipped past typical detection methods before being discovered five years ago by a citizen scientist participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9." Celestial ‘Accident’ Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-st...

Bring the kids and let’s talk about Cosmic Collisions! Join me at @jeffkinney.bsky.social’s bookstore, @anunlikelystory.bsky.social, September 27 at 4pm! 111 South Street, Plainville, MA. anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/kuchner1

What’s that blue stripe on the moon? #astrophotography #astronomy

There’s new data online at NASA’s Exoasteroids citizen science project! You could discover the ghost of a planetary system. www.zooniverse.org/projects/exo... #scienceathome #astronomy

NASA's Webb Telescope makes the first ever detection of silane in a brown dwarf. The brown dwarf was discovered by NASA citizen scientist Dan Caselden. Paper in Nature: "Silicate precursor silane detected in cold low-metallicity brown dwarf" rdcu.be/eDWlO #citizenscience #astronomy #news

Just got the first round of sketches for the third Cosmic Collisions book! #kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social It’s coming out in spring 2026. #writingcommunity

The Aurora is supposed to be visible from 18 states tonight! Send your pics to aurorasaurus.org! #scienceathome #citizenscience

Join me and 30+ other Rhode Island authors at the Barrington Library on Saturday, September 13 from 10 am to 2 pm! #writingcommunity #writing #booksky #kidlit

Interstellar bank robbers? Probably not. Here’s the whole article in case you missed it: www.economist.com/science-and-... #astronomy

This impact flash wasn’t confirmed, but amateur astronomers have detected many asteroids and comets crashing into planets and the moon! #astrophotography #citizenscience #news #scienceathome

We're online with librarians right now talking about NASA science here! gmri-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An inspiring interviw with a NASA citzen scientist-turned astronaut candidate! science.nasa.gov/science-rese... #space #news

NASA event for librarians! Tomorrow 1 pm ET. Please share with librarians you know. science.nasa.gov/get-involved...

Great hanging out with y’all at the Boston Museum of Science today! Next stop, An Unlikely Story Bookstore, 111 South Street Plainville, MA. Sept 27 at 4pm. @museumofscience.bsky.social @anunlikelystory.bsky.social

Hanging out @museumofscience.bsky.social today in Boston!

Why is the meat from tuna fish colored red? #nature #astronomy

NASA Response Mappers needs your help documenting land cover changes before and after hurricanes. Submit your photos through the GLOBE Observer Land Cover citizen science project! appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/n... #photography #nature #communityscience #HurricaneErin #Erin

The triple black hole that got away…. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #astronomy #news #cosmiccollisions

Did a comet crash prolong the last ice age? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #astronomy #news #scicomm @museumofscience.bsky.social

I made a new NASA Citizen Science Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/RuYFTCU You can find all of our projects online at science.nasa.gov/citizen-science. #participatoryscience #communityscience #scienceathome #space #scicomm

Where did Earth’s water come from? (The water in your body!) This study points to comets. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A possible collision between a black hole and a red supergiant! arxiv.org/abs/2502.19469 #astronomy #astrophysics #news #scicomm

Carousels are like car engines, but in reverse! #classiccars #engineering #howitworks

What do shooting stars look like before they fall? See the diagonal faint stripe between the two blue tick marks? #astronomy #space #photography #science

I just got comments back from my editor on the fourth Cosmic Collisions book! Here’s what’s in them. #writingcommunity #author #kidlit

News from NASA’s @spritacular.bsky.social project! science.nasa.gov/science-rese... #astrophotography #citizenscience #nature If you’ve ever caught a photo of a sprite, jet or other TLE, be sure to send it in!

Marine ecologist friends…can anybody identify these creatures for me that I found on the beach? #nature #inaturalist #photography #beach #biology

Thank you for the birthday wishes! I spent the day growing NASA citizen science and being grateful to still have that job. Then I ate an enormous lobster roll.

Bring your kids and join me at the Boston Museum of Science, August 24, 1pm, in the Blue Wing! #dad #mom #travel #booksky #author #astronomy

The Snapshot Wisconsin citizen science project is on a roll....and now it has a new NASA grant. science.nasa.gov/directorates... #nature #photography #scicomm #news

Great to see NASA #citizenscience in classrooms! science.nasa.gov/learning-res... #earth #scicomm #teaching #communityscience

The Earth’s spin is slowly speeding up because of tides, earthquakes, climate change and other factors. #scicomm #geology

Fellow authors and #writingcommunity members, I was today years old when I learned this. Don’t judge! #booktok #booksky

Hey Dad! Why is this Rhode Island beach so sparkly? Phyllosilicates! Aka rock baklava. #science #travel