Kenneth Chang

Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars.

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

The policy aims to greatly increase the number of spacecraft launches and re-entries.

A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.

Although amateur and professional astronomers pointed their telescopes at the impact site, there were no obvious signs of a collision — at least not yet.

The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which sent two private landers to the moon last year, will collide with the moon early Wednesday morning.

The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.