As part of an effort to shed excess property as the space shuttle program winds down, NASA sold off 10 computers without first making sure highly sensitive data had been removed, an internal audit has ...

'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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BOZEMAN — When NASA’s unmanned lunar lander launches from Florida next week, it will carry with ...

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

Most of us don't have anything really interesting in our basements, and certainly nothing of historical significance. In the case of a former engineer from Pittsburgh, his basement was home to a pair ...

Playing air guitar and mumbling could be examples of how NASA's future astronauts fly and work in space. That's because as technology becomes smaller, it's going to become more difficult for "big, fat ...

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A quantum computer has reached new heights. The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, scientists report. Launched on June 23, the computer had to be designed to fit in ...