NASA has been practically synonymous with advanced computing for nearly 70 years. To this day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration continues to accomplish the impossible with computers.

As NASA ventures further into space, the agency is continuously scaling its supercomputing power to handle increasingly complex mission demands. NASA has officially debuted Athena, its most powerful ...

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NASA has quietly flipped the switch on a new class of machine built to keep pace with its most ambitious missions. The Athena supercomputer, capable of 20 quadrillion operations per second, is ...

Astrophysicists and cosmologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the first scientists to have access to the powerful new Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...