In DeSoto this week, students from one school are being immersed in the history of the woman who bears the name of their ...

NASA honoring 'Hidden Figures' math hero NASA "human computers" Mary Jackson, Katherine Coleman Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan from the Apollo era were portrayed in the 2016 hit movie "Hidden Figures." ...

NASA is testing an innovative approach to help improve student performance in mathematics by challenging them to solve the real-world problems involved with controlling airplanes in the sky ...

The SpaceMath@NASA mathematics resource for teachers and students recently achieved a landmark number of downloads. On Feb. 23, 2011, a visitor downloaded the 3 millionth mathematics problem set ...

Her work has earned two major grants from NASA. Mathematics major Tony Terzolo, of Camillus, N.Y., serves as her research assistant for the project that seeks to find water in extrasolar planetary ...

Born in 1918, Katherine Johnson became a well-known mathematician and a pioneer in America's space flight exploration history ...

NASA honoring 'Hidden Figures' math hero Vaughan was portrayed by Octavia Spencer in the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," garnering Spencer an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.