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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — A man has been indicted on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft due to his attempts to fraudulently get computer software and source code created by NASA, research ...

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 ...

The director of software engineering at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, Hamilton was a pioneer of computer science in a transformative era, and on a transformative mission, in human history. "The ...

Forty-six years in deep space have taken their toll on NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft. Their antiquated computers sometimes do puzzling things, their thrusters are wearing out, and their fuel lines ...

HAMPTON — NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University signed an agreement during a ceremony held Sept. 11 at NASA Langley to advance research, educational ...

On Monday, the space agency announced the 10 people chosen for its 2025 astronaut candidate class, selected from over 8,000 applicants across the U.S. That’s an acceptance rate of about 0.125%, making ...