On Thursday July 23, NASA’s Kepler Science Team announced the discovery of planet Kepler 452-b. The team described the planet as “Earth’s bigger, older cousin,” and it is the first Earth-sized planet to be found in the habitable zone by…
Dr. Darlene Lim, one of BAER’s most honored scientists, will host the first scientific meeting for a new NASA program to investigate the habitability of volcanic terrain on Mars. The June meeting at NASA Ames is the first gathering of…
NASA has selected a team led by BAER’s Dr. Meloë Kacenelenbogen to study atmospheric aerosols. Through the three-year project, Dr. Kacenelenbogen will work with scientists from NASA, NOAA, and several universities on a number of tasks designed to improve the…
NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) selected a team from NASA Ames Research Center, and six other research teams nationwide, to take part in astrobiology research for the next five years. Total value of the award is over $50 million for the…
BAER’s Julie Nottage has been recognized by NASA Ames Research Center under its Safety Awards Program. NASA established the program to recognize individuals whose actions, behavior, and job performance go above and beyond the call of duty resulting in improved…
A team of scientists, including BAER’s Dr. Darlene Lim, have won the prestigious NASA Ames Honor Award for Group Achievement for the Pavilion Lake Research Project. The goal of the project is to discover the origin of freshwater reef-like structures…
Dr. Tom Barclay of BAER Institute is the newest Director of the Kepler and K2 Mission Guest Observer Office. NASA’s Kepler Mission uses a satellite to look for Earth-sized or smaller planets that, like Earth, are within the ‘habitable zone’. …
Sreeja Nag, MIT graduate student in the AeroAstro Department and summer BAER Institute employee is the winner of the 22nd Annual Frank J. Redd Student Competition held at the Commerce of Small Satellites conference in Logan, UT, Aug. 2-7. This…
The work of BAER’s Susan Kulawik on NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO‑2) mission now enters a new stage with the launch of the OCO-2 satellite on July 2, 2014. The mission aims to provide scientists with new insight into the…
BAER Institute welcomes Margaret Williams as its new Associate Director of Research. Margaret comes to BAER from Impact Carbon, a non-profit organization that uses carbon finance to increase access to clean energy technologies in the developing world. Margaret served as…