Macy Huston & Jason Wright

Macy Huston studies stars, planets, and the search for extraterrestrial life. They work on the theory of and search for technosignatures, or signs of technology of nonhuman origin. They also study the distributions of stars and planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Prof. Wright studies nearby stars, their ages and activity levels, and most of all their planetary systems. He finds and characterizes new planets around other stars by making careful measurements of how they move their host stars and how they block their host stars' light. He also works in SETI, seeking signs of technological life elsewhere in the universe.