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 ...

Washington—NASA’s mission system software is considered to be among the best-engineered in the world. But in the aftermath of the 1999 Mars Polar Lander crash, which was caused by a software bug, NASA ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA said today that a space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that's supposed to fly on shuttle Endeavour next month. The act of sabotage was caught before ...