Space agency
National Science Foundation
Every Cosmic Herald story on National Science Foundation — missions, launches, discoveries, and the business of space, newest first.
3articles
2026-07-02latest coverage
Astronomymost-covered category
-
Astronomy
Action! Rubin Observatory Officially Starts Its 10-Year LSST Survey
On June 30, 2026, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory formally began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a decade-long nightly scan of the southern sky with the world's largest digital camera.
-
Astronomy
A Ghostly Neutrino Leads Astronomers to 'Shadow Blaster,' a Starburst Galaxy 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A 2021 IceCube high-energy neutrino has been traced to JCMT0402-0424, a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy 11 billion light-years away — the strongest evidence yet that distant dusty star-forming galaxies forge the universe's most elusive particles.
