The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent US federal agency that supports fundamental research and education in science and engineering across various fields, including astronomy and astrophysics. NSF provides grants for research projects, infrastructure, and facilities, such as telescopes and observatories, that enable discoveries about the universe. They also collaborate with NASA on space-related research activities and provide funding for projects utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory. NSF's activities advance knowledge, cultivate a STEM workforce, and expand scientific literacy.
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SpaceX will need to satisfy orbital safety conditions, demonstrate active debris-mitigation capabilities, and coordinate with the National Science Foundation to limit radio and optical interference with ground-based astronomical observations.
The National Science Foundation sponsors the Discovering our Universe gallery at the National Air and Space Museum.
Martin Still is the program director at the National Science Foundation Office for Research Infrastructure.
Martin Still is the director of the program at the National Science Foundation Office of Research Infrastructure.
Most of the funding for the Windows Center comes from the National Science Foundation.
Most of the funding for the Windows on the Universe Center for Astronomy Outreach comes from the National Science Foundation, and the rest comes from private donations.
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope has been repurposed with interactive exhibits and astronomy education programs funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The International Gemini Observatory is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
Interlune has secured funding and contracts from NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Texas Space Commission, and several commercial customers.
Interlune built and tested payload prototypes on parabolic aircraft flights simulating lunar gravity through prior work with NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and the National Science Foundation.
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
The House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee's bill provides $7 billion for the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation operates a global network of observatories.
The Trump administration’s FY27 budget request would cut National Science Foundation funding to $4 billion.
Nearly two dozen members of the National Science Foundation’s advisory board received termination emails ending their service on the board.
DECam is mounted on a National Science Foundation telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, which is part of NSF’s NOIRLab program.
The DESI collaboration has support from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Mexico’s SECIHTI, Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation, and DESI member institutions.
The project depended on collaboration among researchers and institutions around the globe and received partial funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Arizona State University, in a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is collaborating with BioServe Space Technologies to study how germicidal ultraviolet light affects the formation of biofilms in space-based water systems.