The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Will algorithms designed for interconnected computers hold up if some of the machines are not here on Earth but flying about in space, onboard satellites or spacecraft? Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Spacecraft are great explorers, but they can be frustrating pen pals. The farther from home a probe ventures, the longer its dispatches take to reach eager humans on Earth and the terser such reports ...

Aldoria and Look Up Space, two French startups offering space surveillance services, are developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to draw useful information from vast amounts of data. As low ...