diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/resolve.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/resolve.js
index f9673a3ed54571..2ec53365373e86 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/resolve.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/resolve.js
@@ -246,8 +246,34 @@ function finalizeResolution(resolved, base, preserveSymlinks) {
     throw err;
   }
 
-  const stats = internalFsBinding.internalModuleStat(toNamespacedPath(StringPrototypeEndsWith(path, '/') ?
-    StringPrototypeSlice(path, -1) : path));
+  let stats;
+  if (getOptionValue('--experimental-typescript')) {
+    if (StringPrototypeEndsWith(path, '/')) {
+      path = StringPrototypeSlice(path, 0, -1);
+    }
+    // Try to add .ts extension
+    let attemptTsPath = path;
+    if (!StringPrototypeEndsWith(attemptTsPath, '.ts')) {
+      attemptTsPath += '.ts';
+    }
+
+    stats = internalFsBinding.internalModuleStat(toNamespacedPath(attemptTsPath));
+    switch (stats) {
+      case 0:
+        // Found the .ts file
+        path = attemptTsPath;
+        break;
+      case 1:
+        throw new ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT(path, fileURLToPath(base), String(resolved));
+      default:
+        // In case we cannot find the .ts file, we fill fall back to js
+        stats = internalFsBinding.internalModuleStat(path);
+        break;
+    }
+  } else {
+    stats = internalFsBinding.internalModuleStat(toNamespacedPath(StringPrototypeEndsWith(path, '/') ?
+      StringPrototypeSlice(path, -1) : path));
+  }
 
   // Check for stats.isDirectory()
   if (stats === 1) {
diff --git a/test/fixtures/typescript/test-import-no-extension.ts b/test/fixtures/typescript/test-import-no-extension.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..54cea70c49ebd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/typescript/test-import-no-extension.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+import { a } from './a';
+console.log(a);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-typescript.js b/test/parallel/test-typescript.js
index 09a15a3bd32db9..7097a42589da09 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-typescript.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-typescript.js
@@ -45,3 +45,17 @@ test('execute a typescript with node_modules', async () => {
     stdout: 'Hello, TypeScript!\n',
   });
 });
+
+test('execute a typescript file with imports with no extensions', async () => {
+  const result = await spawnPromisified(process.execPath, [
+    '--experimental-typescript',
+    fixtures.path('typescript/test-import-no-extension.ts'),
+  ]);
+
+  deepStrictEqual(result, {
+    code: 0,
+    signal: null,
+    stderr: '',
+    stdout: 'Hello, TypeScript!\n',
+  });
+});