Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Making Sense of the Sun" UPDATE: NASA reported that the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest flyby of the sun. On Dec. 26, the mission ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Caption Goddard technologists Ted Swanson and Matthew Showalter hold a 3-D-printed battery-mounting plate developed specifically for a sounding-rocket mission.

Ted Scambos is Senior Research Scientist and Lead Scientist for the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a part of the University of Colorado, Boulder, US. He received a PhD in Geology from the ...