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 ...

Last summer, three researchers took a small step toward answering one of the most important questions in theoretical computer science. To paraphrase Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study, ...

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 ...

Three days after a computer update problem caused more than 5,000 flight cancellations around the world in a single day, things are pretty much back to normal — except at Delta Air Lines.

We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

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 ...