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 ...

Rockets are powerful machines capable of lofting people and cargo into the great beyond. But why do they need to be so big if they're sending payloads to the moon or Mars? The fifth episode of the ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As aptly noted by shuttle veteran Don Pettit, ...

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 ...