An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows what passed for a giant computer in 1986. The Cray 2 runs at 250 MHz and had two gigabytes of memory ...

Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery ...

NASA traced the problem to a single chip in the flight data subsystem, an onboard computer that prepares science and engineering data to be sent home. That chip held some of the FDS software code.

NASA has long sought cost-effective solutions to mitigate radiation effects on computers to ensure mission safety and success. Enter the Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC) technology ...

NASA launched the Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander with their latest drill technology called the Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) which was ...

NASA is testing drone technology for 24/7 wildfire response, enhancing aerial firefighting with airspace management and autonomous operations.

During the Artemis 1 re-entry, more charred material separated from the heat shield than computer models predicted. While the unexpected "liberation" had no impact on the spacecraft — NASA said ...