NASA's Hubble telescope, the giant space observatory taking snaps of the universe almost 600 kilometers above the surface of the Earth, is all set to get back to work after a month-long break caused ...

WASHINGTON — Spacecraft controllers are continuing to work on a faulty computer memory system on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope that has stopped telescope operations for nearly a week. A payload ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed on April 25, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery. Avoiding distortions of the atmosphere, Hubble has an unobstructed view peering to planets, stars, and ...

A system-wide computer problem stalled four South Shore Line trains at their stations between 20 and 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon. The issue was with Positive Train Control, the computer-operated ...

NASA is optimistic engineers can fix the computer problem that has kept Voyager 1 from transmitting usable data for months. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — A NASA official says he is optimistic ...

The "knapsack problem" is a widespread computing challenge—and no, it doesn't have to do just with literal backpacks. golubovy / iStock Imagine you’re a thief robbing a museum exhibit of tantalizing ...

Your computer performs various self-checking procedures when you press the power button, ultimately resulting in proper booting of your operating system. If, however, you only see a black screen with ...

Mathematicians have discovered a problem they cannot solve. It's not that they're not smart enough; there simply is no answer. The problem has to do with machine learning — the type of ...

Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics. In 1935, Albert Einstein ...

It's time to run your errands, and you've got multiple stops to make. From your house, you have to hit the supermarket, the gas station, and the hardware store, all before returning home. Assuming you ...