Sara Seager

Links

• ORCID

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 · 12 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 · 4 citations

• The Curious Case of Dark Faculae on M Dwarf Stars

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2026 · 3 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

• Molecular Hydrogen Controls the Temperatures of Flares on TRAPPIST-1

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 2 citations

• Overestimated Pressure Broadening Misleads Model Spectra in Cool M Dwarf Stars

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2026 · 2 citations

Publications via NASA Science Explorer (SciX)