Sara Seager

I’m an astrophysicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, 2024.

My research focuses on exoplanets, planets which orbit stars other than our sun. My quest is to find another Earth, a true ‘Earth twin’, and to search for signs of life on any kind of exoplanet by studying their atmospheres. I’ve played a leadership role on space missions, and I’m also working for new, more sophisticated ways to find planets.

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Publications

Seager, S. & Bains, W. (2015). The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science. Science Advances, 1(2), e1500047.
Seager, S., Turnbull, M., Sparks, W., et al. (2015). The Exo-S probe class starshade mission. Proceedings of the SPIE, 9605.
Seager, S. & Deming, D. (2010). Exoplanet Atmospheres. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 48, 631–672.
Rogers, L. A., & Seager, S. (2010). A Framework for Quantifying the Degeneracies of Exoplanet Interior Compositions. The Astrophysical Journal, 712(2), 974–991.
Smith, M., Seager, S., & Pong, C., et al. (2010). ExoplanetSat: Detecting transiting exoplanets using a low-cost CubeSat platform. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Seager, S., Sasselov, D. (1998). Extrasolar Giant Planets under Strong Stellar Irradiation. The Astrophysical Journal, 502(2), 157-161.

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