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 ...

Joining Space.com's Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik, who moderated the discussion, were three panelists, including Dr. Sara Seager, an astrophysicist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of ...

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 ...

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 ...