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A new way to fund space exploration, from 2009 TED Prize winner Jill Tarter
Astronomer Jill Tarter wants us all to ask the question, “Are we alone?” As director of the SETI Institute (it stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Tarter is dedicated to seeking...
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New playlists: “Ancient clues,”“Planes, trains and automobiles” and “Are we...
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, three new playlists are available: “Ancient clues,” “Planes,...
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TED Weekends listens to outer space
Honor Harger isn’t your typical artist. Or your typical astronomer. At the TEDSalon London Spring 2011, Harger shared how she brings these two seemingly unrelated disciplines together — the study of...
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“Peering into Space”: TED Radio Hour takes you beyond the void
Huddle around the radio, all. TED Radio Hour’s second season is under way and episode two, “Peering into Space” premieres today. Host Guy Raz says that this episode may even be his favorite created so...
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Rhythms of starlight, melodies of astrophysics: Fellows Friday with Lucianne...
Mock-up of a proposed installation in which live chanting triggers the sounds of the stars. The orange squares are meditation cushions arranged in the shape of the Kepler telescope’s detectors, and the...
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Smile for the camera: A photograph of Earth is being taken from a billion...
Surprise! The Earth is visible in this image of Saturn during a total eclipse, taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Today, it will take another image. Today may go down in history as The Day the Earth...
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6 talks to watch this Moon Day
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Moon Day is held every July 20 to commemorate this momentous feat. 43 years later, humanity is still looking to the sky,...
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The moon’s path is full of thorns: Fellows Friday with Johnson Urama
Nigerian astronomer Johnson Urama wants to promote the future of astronomy in Africa by looking deep into history. With his African Cultural Astronomy Project, he is gathering the lost ancient...
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The history and future of the Universe in four minutes: Brian Greene at TED2014
Physicist Brian Green promises he will tell the audience at TED 2014 the whole history of the universe in four minutes. “Forgive me,” he says, “if I leave out a detail here or there.” He does it with...
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Allan Adams and Randall Munroe explain a physics discovery at TED2014
Allan Adams. Photo: James Duncan Davidson In a surprise talk tonight, Allan Adams took the stage to explain a remarkable discovery announced just yesterday. And since he’s here and is amazing, Randall...
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Blocking light to see planets beyond the solar system: Jeremy Kasdin at TED2014
Jeremy Kasdin. Photo: James Duncan Davidson “The universe is teeming with planets,” and Jeremy Kasdin, an astronomer at Princeton University, wants to see them. Not in the way they’ve been detected so...
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Deep and faint in the night sky: Andrew Connolly at TED2014
Andrew Connolly. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Astronomer Andrew Connolly begins by telling us that in 1781, English composer, technologist and composer Sir William Herschel noticed something unusual,...
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You found a planet!: Robert Simpson crowdsources scientific research and...
Scientific research is generating far more data than the average researcher can get through. Meanwhile, modern computing has yet to catch up with the superior discernment of the human eye. The...
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Could comets explain why there’s life on Earth? A lesson in chalk
When Justin Dowd worked as a food runner at a restaurant, he would sometimes doodle on the chalkboard in the kitchen. He had no idea that this skill — coupled with his ability to explain physics —...
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Our night sky is teeming with exoplanets: Sara Seager on the hunt for another...
Sara Seager speaks about her search for life outside the Milky Way. Photo: Bret Hartman/TED “Are we alone? Is there life out there?” asks Sara Seager on the stage in Session 4 of TED2015. “These...
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Astronomer, actor, role model: TED Fellow Aomawa Shields looks for life on...
Aomawa Shields is an astrobiologist who studies the potential for life on other planets. She also uses her training as an actor to teach middle school girls about the joys of astronomy. Photo: Ryan...
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