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.’ ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s mission software systems are considered to be among the best-engineered in the world. But software has its limits, and NASA realized after the 1999 crash of the unmanned Mars Polar ...