NASA has spent more than a week trying to fix the Hubble Telescope's computer hardware issues. The problem: a 1980s-era payload computer, which is supposed to control and coordinate scientific ...

A 20-year-old hacker gained control over sensitive NASA computer systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and at Stanford University, then used them to penetrate other government and ...

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reset its flight computer Feb. 18 and has been unresponsive to commands ever since, agency officials said Friday (Feb. 24).

The computer, known as the “RadPC”, went into space on January 15th atop a SpaceX Falcon launcher. NASA bought the machine a ticket on a mission run by Firefly Aerospace, which hopes to land a ...

NASA engineers spent months doggedly trying to fix a computer on Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s that’s now exploring interstellar space.

Atari’s late 1970s arcade game wasn’t built on a NASA-developed computer chip or anything, but the game’s entire premise—safely deposit a tiny lander on the rocky surface of the Moon—is ...

NASA is no stranger to spacecraft glitches. The Hubble Space Telescope, for example, has weathered quite a few technical snafus over the years and has survived and thrived. TESS seems to have made ...