Science news articles about 'sara seager'

MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager has been studying exoplanets — planets circling stars other than the sun — for many years. The first such planet was discovered just 15 years ago, and now more than ...

... of a huge haul of new exoplanets in our galaxy. “This really changes things,” says Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who attended the International Astronomical Union meeting ...

... than the Earth's. Yet Gaudi joined with Eric Gaidos of the University of Hawaii and Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to model whether such planets might harbor a liquid ocean ...

... VLT) and on August 3rd on Carnegie's Magellan-Baade telescope in Chile." López-Morales and colleague Sara Seager had earlier predicted that the ideal candidate for such a ...

... Johns Hopkins University, Michael A'Hearn and Dennis Wellnitz of the University of Maryland, Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian ...

... observatory, the world's most powerful planet-searching telescope, and according to MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager they show that the instrument should have no trouble detecting "alien Earths."