November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... to that conclusion. No matter how careful or tentative we are in our messaging, excitement tends to take on a life of its own. Sara Seager is introduced to the audience at NEAF What would discovering life beyond Earth mean for science - and for...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
.... But so far, research on the viability of life in these environments is lacking. To address this shortfall, Sara Seager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US and colleagues conducted laboratory-based tests on two single-celled...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
...the research will comprise world-class physicists, astronomers, astrobiologists, chemists and engineers, led by Dr. Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science, Physics and Aerospace Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The group...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... in the search for extraterrestrial life. In another conversation piece, ROOM’s Steve Kelly speaks with MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager about the prospects for discovering signs of life beyond our solar system. Closer to home, ROOM continues...
