Despite the scorching, toxic conditions on the planet Venus, some scientists want to look there for life—in the clouds.

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 ...

Water is essential for life on Earth. So, the liquid must be a requirement for life on other worlds. For decades, scientists’ definition of habitability on other planets has rested on this assumption.

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 ...

(via Big Think) Astrophysicist Sara Seager has spent decades expanding how we search for life beyond Earth: not by asking what we would look like out there, but by imagining forms of intelligence that ...

Former Stanford economist Mark Duggan, Jacquelyn Pless from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Canadian-born astrophysicist Sara Seager, also from MIT, are coming to the University of ...