Rocket Lab finally pulled the cover off its Neutron rocket, a medium-lift vehicle that CEO Peter Beck calls “a rocket of 2050,” as the company looks to take a greater share of the launch market ...

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 ...

HELSINKI — A Chinese launch vehicle maker is working on designs for an air-launched rocket for sending small satellites to orbit. The system is being designed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle ...

Astra Space only saw failure during its attempts to launch from the Space Coast in 2022 to the point the company shelved its rocket design in favor of a new one. While it did manage successful orbital ...

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 ...

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 ...