BAERI’s Taylor Bell and a team of researchers have identified the presence of methane in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-80b, a Jupiter-sized planet 163 light years away from Earth. Data from the James Webb Space Telescope enabled this discovery. Bell and…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research Center to advance cutting-edge research in Earth science and technology. The agreement was originally awarded to…
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in over 100 different AGU talks and poster sessions. The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, will be held this year in…
By Jane Berg When BAERI’s Courtney Batterson was a child growing up in Minnesota, she was fascinated by storms — not only the tornados for which the Midwest is known — but also the very sudden and aggressive thunderstorms that…
Congrats to BAERI alumn Luis F.A. Teodoro and his team for their work on modeling the formation of Saturn’s rings and the resulting discovery of their surprising newness. Favorite quote from the New York Times article about their paper: “I’m sure it…
In this special episode of our podcast For the Love of Science, we hear the story of BAERI’s founding from the founders themselves: Robert Bergstrom and Sharon Sittloh. Listen here or on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. Robert…
By Rachel Sender The Quantum Chemistry Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center is not a typical chemistry lab — there are no glass vials brimming with colorful chemicals, bubbling together in thrilling experimentation. Rather, this lab is a cluster of…
In this episode we hear from planetary scientist Victoria Hartwick who works with the Mars Climate Modeling Center at NASA Ames. The conversation includes a discussion about Dr. Hartwick’s paper that explores whether wind turbines on Mars could be a viable source…
BAERI researcher Taylor Bell was part of the team that recently published a paper in Nature that shows the Earth-like exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b likely has no atmosphere. The study is significant in that the seven-planet TRAPPIST system has three planets…
A recent paper published by BAER Institute researcher Victoria Hartwick in Nature Astronomy shows the potential for wind turbines to help power future human exploration on the surface of Mars, a source of energy previously written off due to the…