Two months shy of turning 40, the MIT astronomer Sara Seager decided to throw herself a highly unconventional birthday party. She rented a wood-paneled auditorium in the university’s Media Lab. She ...

A gas on Earth has also been detected in the atmosphere of Venus.While it may not signify the presence of life, the "entirely surprising" discovery of phosphine could hint at unknown processes ...

Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare?

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Step inside the research and imagination of Professor Sara Seager, a trailblazer in the search for life beyond Earth and a recipient of the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Exploring the staggering ...

Sometimes, searching for other worlds pays off. Harvard Astrophysics professor David Charbonneau won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in June, sharing a $1 million prize with MIT professor Sara ...

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Participants discussed several common themes throughout the event: the importance of extreme environments in shaping chemistry, the limitations of our Earth-centric perspective when searching for life ...

“TRAPPIST-1e remains one of our most compelling habitable-zone planets, and these new results take us a step closer to knowing what kind of world it is,” Sara Seager, a professor of planetary science ...