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 ...

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 ...

Photo by Justin Knight. MIT professor Sara Seager has been chasing aliens for most of her adult life. In 2020, Seager was an adviser on the UK team of astronomers that discovered phosphine—a gas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...