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Lisa Kaltenegger

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Lisa Kaltenegger is an award-winning astrophysicist, founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, and professor of astronomy at Cornell. She is a pioneer and world-leading expert in the search for life in the cosmos. She holds several international science prizes and awards for outstanding teaching. Asteroid 4377 Kaltenegger is named after her.

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Astronomy

Discovering the First Other Earths

Inside the hunt for habitable planets.

May 8, 2024
Astronomy

Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us

More than 1,700 stars could have seen Earth in the past 5,000 years.

September 15, 2021
Astronomy

Worlds Without End

Think we might eventually travel to other planets? In a way, we already are.

July 9, 2013