Sara Seager

Sara Seager, PhD

www.saraseager.com
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17 Interviews
“Astronomical Indiana Jones” is what colleagues from NASA call #astrophysicist Sara Seager . Her research is focused on the discovery and analysis of “exoplanets” (planets orbiting other stars) and she is working on finding those rare ones that are most like our Earth. For her work, the American Astronomical Society awarded Seager the Helen B. Warner Prize, which is presented annually to promising young astronomers. Seager derived her own equation for estimating the number of habitable planets in our galaxy, which is in conflict with the Drake equation (no relation to Drake - the source of memes). That classic formula was created in 1961 and included parameters like a planet’s ability to release signals into space. Seager suggested that the main condition for a planet’s ability to sustain life was not its propensity to radiate signals into space but the presence of so-called “biosignature” gasses. Curious to learn more about Dr. Seager’s research and the Galactic Indiana Jones herself? Then tune your radio ears to Sara Seager’s station on Padverb and get ready to be transported to another world

Sara Seager's Interviews

Neil deGrasse Tyson & Sara Seager 09 May 2025 • EN

Cosmic Queries – Life on Exoplanets with Sara Seager

Is there life on other planets? On this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Matt Kirshen dig into the search for extraterrestrial life with exoplanet expert and author of the memoir, “Smallest Lights in the Universe,” astrophysicist Sara Seager.  Originally Aired March 15, 2021 NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons

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Derek Thompson & Sara Seager 22 Apr 2025 • EN

An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life

Last week, a team of astrophysicists from the University of Cambridge announced that they had discovered the “strongest indication” ever of extraterrestrial life. The source did not come from Mars or Venus or any nearby moon. It came from K2-18b, a massive planet some 120 light-years from Earth. If this finding checks

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This podcast is sponsored by The Kavli Prize

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Alan Alda & Sara Seager 31 Jan 2023 • EN

Sara Seager: Is There Life Out There?

Pioneering a new way to search for signs of life on planets circling other suns, Sara Seager battled through a devastating personal loss to see her method vindicated by NASA’s powerful new space telescope.

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Brad Mose & Sara Seager 13 May 2022 • EN

We’re Going on a Planet Hunt with Sara Seager

Sara Seager is Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on discovering new exoplanets and characterizing their atmospheres. She hopes to find and identify another Earth and searches for signs of life. In this episode, Sara describes how we find planet

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Rayhan Walia + Parker Levesque & Sara Seager 14 Feb 2022 • EN

Episode #99 - LIFE, A Million Light-Years Away w/ Dr Sara Seager

Today we speak with Dr Sara Seager, a professor at MIT, about her work in exoplanet research. Deemed by NASA as the Indiana Jones of astronomy, it is people like her who can further our conquest. The race to find life elsewhere in the Universe is one that may never end.   Instagram: @math.physics.podcast Tiktok: @math.

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