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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Looking beyond smart cities
IM-2’s sideways lunar landing didn’t stop Media Lab researchers and collaborators from gaining insights from their onboard experiments.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design + engineering
At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Svetlana Boriskina, Ikra Shuvo, Duo Xu, Xianglin Ji, and Raul Fangueiro win MIT Portugal grant for sustainable textile research.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy has been named a 2025 Karman Fellow for her leadership in space sustainability and climate innovation.
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
This research highlights opportunities to bring the rich culture of Earth-based fermentation practices to space to design beneficial applic…
Coblentz, Maggie et al.
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
MIT Media Lab Curates the World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence Map on Space
Guru Madhavan talks to Media Lab Director Dava Newman and Major General Charles Bold.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
The MIT Space Exploration Initiative explores Lunar analog sites on Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote.During a 10-day field program in Feb…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
A FerroMagnetic Suit For Zero Gravity // Grounding Humans without Gravity
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
They were honored in the Small and Mighty: Fewer Than 100 Employees category.
The fellowship provides resources to help extend the impact of her mission to democratize access to space.
Director Dava Newman talks with ILP as part of their Faculty Feature, discussing her work at the MIT Media Lab.
AstroAnt was selected from the Robotics + Automation category.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
A selection of Images from Cambridge Science Festival 2024 | MIT Media Lab Presents: Innovation Under the Stars.
This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
Biomimicry looks to living organisms to create the future of sustainable engineering.
Castrol supports the AstroAnt Payload Program, a robotic swarm designed for tasks on spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.
C. Paige, D.D. Haddad, Trent Piercy, J. Todd, F. Ward, A. Ekblaw, D. Newman. "Development and user study of the Operational Geology in a Virtual Environment (OGIVE) platform." Acta Astronautica, Volume 224, 2024, Pages 17-36, ISSN 0094-5765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.07.043.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
The IM-2 Moon Mission will carry three projects from the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative and collaborators.
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
The Space Exploration Initiative’s 2022 microgravity flight features lunar-specific payloads in advance of an upcoming moon mission
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
Professor Danielle Wood and other experts consider what it means that the Outer Space Treaty defines space as the “province of all mankind."
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …