When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rockets are powerful machines capable of lofting people and cargo into the great beyond. But why ...

Tiera Fletcher carefully read through an artificial intelligence chatbot’s attempt at rocket science. "That's true, that's factual," she said thoughtfully as she scanned the AI-generated description ...

Haug has recently introduced a new maximum velocity for subatomic particles (anything with rest mass) that is just below the speed of light. This is combined with the relativistic rocket equation in ...

Yale astrophysicist Marla Geha was visiting U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, appropriately enough, when she realized she needed to take her rocket science class global. Geha, a ...

Tiera Fletcher carefully read through an artificial intelligence chatbot's attempt at rocket science. "That's true, that's factual," she said thoughtfully as she scanned the AI-generated description ...

One of the brutal truths about getting things off the Earth and into space is contained in something called The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, which, to put it absurdly simply, means that most of the ...

Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong? We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned Tiera Fletcher ...

Artificial intelligence has become a talking point more than usual lately. From text churned out by ChatGPT to the artistic renderings of Midjourney, people have been taking notice of new, ...

Our country's location near the equator makes us a prime candidate for being the go-to rocket launch site for all the world's space agencies—a big ace up our sleeves, given our own nascent space ...

Computers have been used in rocketry for half-a-century, so it's possible to think that the new AI programs could help. They struggled to grasp the basics. (NPR staff generated imagery using ...