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Sara Seager

University of Toronto

Planetary scientist and exoplanet pioneer searching for signs of life beyond Earth, now North Star Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto's Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.

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Affiliations

Lead Researcher at Project Starshade
Principal Investigator at Morning Star Missions to Venus

Recent publications

Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres
Nature Astronomy · 2026 · 56 citations
JWST TRAPPIST-1 e/b Program: Motivation and First Observations
The Astronomical Journal · 2026 · 13 citations
Hubble's Multiyear Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 8 citations
An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: Confirmation of Two Low-mass Transiting Brown Dwarfs Discovered by TESS
The Astronomical Journal · 2026 · 6 citations
Direct Images of CO₂ Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Super-Jupiter: Enhanced Metallicity Suggestive of Formation in a Disk
The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 5 citations
The Curious Case of Dark Faculae on M Dwarf Stars
The Astrophysical Journal · 2026 · 4 citations
TOI-2494 c and TOI-5143 c: A Hot Saturn and a Hot Jupiter with Interior Planetary Companions
The Astronomical Journal · 2026 · 3 citations
The Orbital Eccentricity─Radius Distribution for Warm, Single Planets in TESS
The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 3 citations
JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b Reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment
The Astronomical Journal · 2026 · 3 citations
A Single Power Law for the TRAPPIST-1 Flare Distribution across 4 Orders of Magnitude in Energy
The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 2 citations

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