How a scientist found a game-changing accelerator program to match his expertise with the needs of the Pentagon's newest ...

More information: Sara Seager et al, The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.11690.

Planet hunters: David Charbonneau and Sara Seager share the $1m prize for their work characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets. (Courtesy: Nils Lund/Kavliprize) Exoplanet researchers David ...

Sara Seager is the Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Science and Associate Professor of Physics at MIT. Before joining MIT in 2007, she spent four years on the senior research ...

Astrophysicist Sara Seager, a professor of physics, planetary science, aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said independent teams have completely different ...

Sara Seager talks about finding signs of life on other planets and the ways to puruse it, using a method she invented - the transit transmission spectroscopy Sara Seager, 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate ...

A world-renowned leader in astrophysics and planetary science, Sara Seager has been instrumental in advancing the study of planets outside our solar system. Her research over more than 20 years has ...

Seager believes we'd confirm the existence of alien life only with sample-return missions — collecting samples from another planet or moon and bringing them back to Earth for study, in-situ ...

That probe is currently being developed by a team of fewer than 30 people, led by Sara Seager at MIT. Launching as soon as May 2023, it should take five months to reach Venus, arriving in October ...

The Dean’s Scholars Student Association Distinguished Lecture Series, in association with the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, welcomes MIT astrophysicist Dr. Sara Seager. Come ...

That’s all work that would involve investing in entire new paradigms of technology and experimentation, Seager says. To her, that’s why searching for extraterrestrial life matters – even if the ...