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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overcoming gravity: The Soyuz en route to orbit. Being in “outer space” has the connotation of being far from Earth. But here on Space Station, we are only 400 kilometers (240 miles) above 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 ...

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 ...