Whether you're a believer, skeptic or fall somewhere in between, a new federally-commissioned report recommends a government ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

In her new memoir, 'The Smallest Lights in the Universe,' MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager shares her personal history as it intersects with her grand scientific quest to discover a second Earth.

In an excerpt from the introduction of her new book, 'The Smallest Lights in the Universe,' astronomer Sara Seager see life through planetary science.

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

In our galaxy alone, there are hundreds of billions of planets. And Sara Seager is looking for the perfect one, a "Goldilocks" planet— neither too hot nor too cold— that could support life.

Planetary scientist Sara Seager has turned tragedy into tenacity in her search for new Earths among the stars Corey S. Powell Two months shy of turning 40, the MIT astronomer Sara Seager decided ...

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 ...

Stepping outside of her tent in the middle of the night, Sara Seager saw the stars for what she felt like was the first time. She was only 10, but that camping trip with her father in Ontario in ...

The star-crossed life of Sara Seager, an astrophysicist obsessed with discovering the possibility of other life in the universe.

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 ...