NASA Turns to AI to Design Mission Hardware
Spacecraft and mission hardware designed by an artificial intelligence may resemble bones left by some alien species, but they weigh less, tolerate higher structural loads, and require a fraction of …
DARPA Announces Winners of AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition
Critical minerals are essential to the U.S. economy and national security; however, their supply is vulnerable to disruption. U.S. production and refining of critical minerals has been declining for decades, …
AI-Spy with My Little Eye
Crew members aboard the International Space Station collect imagery during studies like Crew Earth Observations and Hurricane-Visual, pointing cameras at interesting features on our planet. Once a picture is taken, …
Argonne scientists team with NASA to enhance faster-than-sound jet engines
Almost 75 years ago, U.S. Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Engineers have been pushing the boundaries of ultrafast …
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it – and it’s doing so using artificial intelligence. On the path …
NASA Supports Research to Advance Earth Science
Through a new prize competition, NASA is engaging minority serving institutions (MSIs) to bring ideas for new information technologies that will help address climate change. The prize competition, the MSI …
Expertise Flows from Computer Cognition
Keeping the lights on in West Africa can be difficult, as the electricity market in the region is plagued with power shortages. While disparities exist, access has improved in the …
New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler’s Total Count
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a …
You Can Help Train NASA’s Rovers to Better Explore Mars
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA’s spacecraft study the universe. But because all machine learning algorithms require training from humans, a recent project asks …
NASA Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Why Are Some Asteroid Surfaces Rocky?
Scientists thought Bennu’s surface was like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. Past telescope observations from Earth had suggested …