The James Webb Space Telescope is a miracle of modern science and engineering. With a 21-foot, gold-coated mirror protected by a sunshield that’s the size of...
Memory foam, air purifiers, scratch-resistant lenses: these are just a few of the everyday items originally developed for space missions. Aerospace engineer Eric Hinterman invites us...
An orbital flight this year, a new rocket built every month and Starship refilling mid-orbit — Elon Musk has updated the world on how SpaceX will...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft will deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try and knock it off course. Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins...
When it launches in 2022, the GOES-T satellite will keep a 24-hour watch on our planet’s weather, helping us track natural disasters in real time. But...
In this fascinating conversation, cosmologist and TED Fellow Katie Mack delves into everything from the Big Bang theory to what we see at the edge of...
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Is there life on Venus? Quantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva makes...
SpaceX is taking humans back to the moon and could one day take us to Mars. But before all that, its massive Starship rocket is gearing...
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. We’ve misplaced the building blocks of the cosmos — and...
Jul.20 — Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers pulled off Blue Origin’s first crewed flight to space, a key milestone in the company’s push to make...