April 22, 2026 Ariel Deutsch is a BAERI researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and part of the Artemis II Lunar Science Team. She is a planetary scientist who studies how the surfaces of other planets have evolved over time…
A team of researchers, including BAERI alumnus Michel Nuevo, analyzed the oldest organics in samples retrieved from the asteroid Bennu during the 2024 OSIRIS-REx mission. Their paper, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows how molecules that are thought to…
The NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Newsletter has arrived! The first issue of the newsletter was published in December, and among its editors are BAERI’s Lora Jovanovic and Partha Bera. Each quarterly issue will be based on a single theme within the…
BAERI’s Alex Borlaff is lead author of this study in Nature, which is causing quite a stir. In the paper, Borlaff and his team model, analyze, and discuss the light interference that would affect space and ground telescopes as the…
First author and BAERI alumna Erica Luzzi, alongside co-authors that include BAERI’s Ariel Deutsch and Alexander Sehlke, have found evidence of near-surface ice on Mars, close to areas under consideration for potential future Mars landing sites. The team used high…
In the journals JGR: Planets and JGR: Machine Learning and Computation, BAERI Research Scientist Ariel Deutsch and a team of researchers have published two papers on Mercury’s hollows, “small, shallow, rimless depressions” on the planet’s surface. The ground-breaking studies classify…
BAERI alumn Taylor Bell has contributed to a new study that rethinks the nature of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b, its surface and the existence of its atmosphere. The billion-year-old planet was thought to have a heavily weathered surface; however, the…
Lead author, BAERI’s Alejandro S. Borlaff, and a team of researchers devised image-analysis techniques that led to the discovery of a massive “tipped over” black hole. The group used archival data from several telescopes around the world, beginning with NASA’s…
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in a wide range of 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…
We are excited to highlight that BAERI’s Ariel Deutsch was asked to join the Artemis II Science Team. As the Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft, circles the Moon carrying astronauts for the first time, Ariel will be on the ground supporting…