From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration.

Artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how rockets fly, how spacecraft sip propellant and how engineers think about the leap to nuclear propulsion. What began as a set of algorithms for ...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...