NASA Ames Research Center

NASA field center in Mountain View, California, focused on aeronautics, exoplanet science, and astrobiology.

Vault-relevant work

• Home institution of ben-lew (with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute), lead author on the 2026 wd-0806b JWST atmosphere retrieval — see src-aas-nova-wd-0806b-atmosphere-2026-04.
• Houses the center-for-life-detection (Director: tori-hoehler), which provides the Deputy PI role for the Investigating Ocean Worlds project led by whoi (see src-whoi-invow-ocean-worlds-2026-05).
• Home institution of caleb-scharf, author of the 2026 Interplanetary Habitable Zone framework (src-interplanetary-habitable-zone-2026).