Rovers, rockets, and all things space.

For a while now, we’ve been talking about transformers, frontier neural network logic models, as a transformative technology, no pun intended. But now, these attention mechanisms have other competing ...

In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we ...

Click to open image viewer. This 1/10th scale model of the Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ...

WASHINGTON — Despite a surge in satellite deployments, the fundamental operating model for spacecraft hasn’t evolved much since Sputnik launched in 1957: build it, launch it, use it, discard it. This ...

The Air Force Museum Foundation has announced a new temporary exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force that will feature two life-size spacecraft models inspired by a well-known ...

To see the word's premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location in deep space on the opposite side of Earth from the sun that is farther away ...