Scientists are revolutionizing the search for extraterrestrial life by challenging our somewhat Earth-centric assumptions ...

In her office on the 17th floor of MIT’s Building 54, Sara Seager is about as close to space as you can get in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From her window, she can see across the Charles River to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...