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The surface of Venus, with cloudy atmosphere. In two insets are stringy, colorful peptides.

Study: Peptides can form well-defined structures in harsh, Venus-like conditions

September 1, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Sara Seager stands with Markus Rex and Wolfgang Busch, holding their NOMIS Awards.

Sara Seager honored with 2025 NOMIS Award

December 19, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

An artist’s rendition of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e as it transits in front of its host star.

New study finds habitable-zone planet unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere

September 8, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three colorful watery planets in space.

Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, a new study finds

August 11, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Sara Seager on looking for alien life in the clouds of Venus – Toronto Life Magazine

May 12, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.

Sara Seager one of three MIT scientists named Kavli Prize Laureates

June 12, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions

March 20, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

The 12-person “The Hunt for Planet B” team poses on the red carpet. The director smiles and holds the Emmy trophy in the center of the shot.

Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

October 5, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?

December 20, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

“Newer, nimbler, faster”: Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid

December 10, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

January 28, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

Seager awarded the 2021 Magellanic Premium Medal

January 11, 2021

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Professor and astrophysicist Sara Seager appointed Officer to the Order of Canada

December 07, 2020

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

“Lava lamp” microbes in the clouds of Venus

August 25, 2020

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths

August 4, 2020

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

TESS mission discovers massive ice giant

July 1, 2020

Categories: Planets, Research

Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world

May 4, 2020

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research