Astronomy *: Professional Associations & Organizations

By engaging citizen scientists through their projects and activities, the Planetary Society aims to foster a scientifically literate populace, one in which every citizen knows and appreciates other worlds as well as this one. They provide seed-funding to innovative technologies, they fund astronomers hunting for hazardous asteroids and planets orbiting other stars, they support optical searches for extraterrestrial life, and they pursue answers to our own scientific questions.