Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Let me do it,” Katherine Johnson famously said when, in the late 1950s, her NASA colleagues were looking for a mathematician to ...

A glitching 1980s-era computer is causing headaches for a NASA operations team struggling to bring the Hubble Space Telescope back online. The problem started on June 13, when Hubble’s payload ...

Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, ...

As NASA continues to diagnose a computer glitch on the Hubble Space Telescope, engineers are preparing to turn on some of the observatory's backup hardware. The main computer on the venerable ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...