The Economic Times

In 2019, 11,482 Hubble Asteroid Hunter volunteers helped train an AI that scanned 37,000 Hubble images; the combined effort uncovered 1,701 asteroid trails, including 1,031 unknown objects

Citizen scientists helped astronomers find over one thousand new asteroids. These faint objects were previously missed by earlier surveys and computers. The Hubble Asteroid Hunter project utilized over eleven thousand volunteers worldwide. Their contributions trained an AI model to process many more images efficiently. This discovery offers insights into the solar system's ancient history.