This is a $208,215.74 grant awarded by NASA to Northern Arizona University (NAU) for research related to detecting signs of life on exoplanets. The project aims to develop a tool for analyzing exoplanet atmospheric compositions to identify potential biosignatures and indications of chemical disequilibrium. The research aligns with NASA's goals of understanding Earth and searching for life elsewhere, as outlined in its strategic plan and the Exobiology program. NAU, a public research university...
This federal contract award to Northern Arizona University (NAU) is for a research project focused on conducting a ground-based telescopic survey to search for a hypothesized distant massive planet in our solar system. The $536,220.47 grant is being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under its Planetary Astronomy (PAST) program. The research aims to either discover this hypothesized planet or rule out its existence through a multi-pronged approach involving...
This is a $66,967.68 grant awarded to Northern Arizona University (NAU) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to support research on constraining life on Earth-like exoplanets. The award does not have a set-aside designation. NAU is a public research university that serves as a Hispanic-Serving Institution and a Native American-serving nontribal institution. The university has an extensive portfolio of federal contracts and grants, providing scientific research, technical...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northern Arizona University, a public research university located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The $210,434.83 grant is for research to address observing strategies that can effectively assess the habitability of directly-imaged exoplanets and rule out false positives for habitability. The work will be performed in Flagstaff, Arizona. No set-aside designation is mentioned. As a Hispanic...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northern Arizona University, a public research university located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The $225,426.00 grant is funding research to determine if the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of vegetation on an exoplanet could be used to detect the presence of tree-like, multi-cellular life. The research builds on previous work that found measurable...
Northern Arizona University received a $500,368 grant award (21-PDART21-0048) from NASA to improve thermal model capability for the planetary science community. The award, with an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2026, supports research activities to be conducted at NAU's Flagstaff, Arizona campus. This grant falls under NASA's Planetary Science Division Research and Analysis (PDART) program, which funds investigations that enhance the scientific return from planetary missions and...
This is a $546,131 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to conduct research on "DEEP EXPLORATION FOR ACTIVE MINOR PLANETS." The grant is for a period of 3 years ending on June 30, 2027. NAU is a public research university that serves as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and a Native American-serving nontribal institution. The university has an extensive portfolio of federal contract and grant awards, leveraging...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $383,012 grant to Northern Arizona University (NAU) for a project titled "Accreting Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclear Clusters". The grant is for research to be performed at NAU's campus in Flagstaff, Arizona. This award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating NAU was selected competitively based on its research capabilities. NAU is a public research university that serves as both a Hispanic...
This is a $150,000.00 training grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northern Arizona University (NAU) for a project titled "Investigating Spectral Slopes in the Polana-Eulalia Complex: Space Weathering Trends and Observations of Sub-KM Members." The award supports scientific research related to planetary science and space weathering. NAU, a public research university serving as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and a Native American-serving...
This is a $848,013.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northern Arizona University (NAU) for the "MIT-HAWAII NEAR EARTH OBJECT SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY" research project. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. NAU is a public research university in Flagstaff, Arizona that serves as both a Hispanic Serving Institution and Native American-serving nontribal institution. Through this award, NAU will conduct planetary science research,...
This federal contract award (80NSSC18K0349) was made by NASA to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to conduct research on exoplanets and their atmospheres. The $472,252 grant supports the development of climate models and spectral databases to help distinguish between "super-Earth" terrestrial planets and "mini-Neptune" gas-rich planets, which are common in exoplanet systems. This work aims to improve NASA's ability to characterize exoplanet atmospheres through future observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope. The research aligns with NASA's strategic goals of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe and the search for life on other planets. NAU, a public research university in Arizona, has prior experience supporting NASA's planetary science research and has received funding from various federal agencies for projects in areas like climate change, forestry, and Native American community assistance.