The Carl Sagan Institute is a Cornell-based interdisciplinary exoplanet and astrobiology research center, directed by lisa-kaltenegger. It focuses on the search for life beyond Earth via spectral modeling, biosignature design, and habitable-zone characterization.
Work covered in this wiki
- Institutional home of the 2026 mineral-false-positives study (Parkinson, Kaltenegger et al., with university-of-edinburgh collaborators) characterizing abiotic mimics of the photosynthesis-red-edge for HWO direct-imaging missions (src-mineral-false-positives-biosignatures-2026-05).