WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 16: University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Natalie Batalha talks about advances in the study of exoplanets made possible by the ...
When Natalie Batalha was growing up in Northern California, she told her mother she wanted to be a philosopher—“looking for meaning in life,” she says today, with an ironic smile. At the University of ...
As Natalie Batalha searches for life outside our solar system, the celebrated astrophysicist and her colleagues often gather around the whiteboard in her UC Santa Cruz office. It’s reminiscent of the ...
When Natalie Batalha was 15 years old, she bounded down the stairs and announced to her startled mother that she’d decided to become a philosopher. Thirty-five years later, that declaration would land ...