The computer that guided astronauts to the moon and back operated with roughly 2,048 words of erasable memory and 36,864 ...

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.’ ...

Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s ...

NASA’s internal computer network is full of holes and is extremely vulnerable to an external cyberattack, an audit by the Office of the Inspector General has found. Even worse, it appears several of ...

The communications lag between Earth and Jupiter means missions to Europa will need to be smart to deal with problems on their own. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...