NASA selects 19 proposals; CSSFP-25 selects 12

NASA's Science Mission Directorate selected 19 proposals.

The NASA Science Mission Directorate announcement is dated 2026.

The Citizen Science Seed Funding Program, called CSSFP-25, selected 12 proposals.

The NASA Science Mission Directorate action involved 19 proposals, while CSSFP-25 selected 12 proposals.

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 discovered most known brown dwarfs, and Zooniverse recorded 1 billion classifications with a NASA grant.

The Rogue Worlds Project is led by Jacqueline Faherty, is associated with the American Museum of Natural History, and has a payload listed as free-floating planets and brown dwarfs; SPHEREx maps the entire sky in near-infrared wavelengths.

Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha leads a galaxy-merger project associated with the University of Missouri, and Overlap Zoo is led by Benne Holwerda, is associated with the University of Louisville, and is live.

Planet Hunters Roman is led by Bernard Gaudi, is associated with Ohio State University, and has exoplanets as its payload.

Space Weather UnderGround is led by Hyunju Connor, is associated with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and includes a low-cost Magnetometer Array and a magnetometer in Alaska.

Lauren Blum leads A Citizen Science Initiative for Sonified Plasma Wave Characterization.

The facts include a NASA grant to Zooniverse and a citizen-science funding program, CSSFP-25, that selected 12 proposals. These items identify where citizen-science support is being applied.

For readers tracking the lunar sector, the listed facts include space-weather hardware: a low-cost Magnetometer Array and a magnetometer in Alaska. These are the closest infrastructure-related entries in the set.