NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

NASA investigators want to know if adjustments made to the position of the space shuttle Columbia during its last minutes by the vehicle’s onboard control computers could have played a role in its ...

NASA has started the painstaking process of updating the software on two of its spacecraft. This would be a tricky operation no matter the mission, but it's all the more perilous with the Voyager ...

'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the ...

After 11 years, NASA scientists running the Mars Odyssey Orbiter have decided to switch the machine’s redundant computing functions from one side to the other in an attempt to keep the technology ...

Brevard County high school students participated in the NASA HUNCH program, creating projects for the International Space Station. Students presented their projects, including a biofilm study and a ...

NASA scientists and engineers have been working since Tuesday night to fix a computer failure on board the Hubble Space Telescope that hobbled the instrument and derailed a shuttle mission. A ...