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. During ...

Long before laptops or calculators were anywhere near NASA's offices, there was a woman doing the math by hand who decided ...

NASA mathematician and trailblazer Katherine Johnson has died at 101 years old. Johnson was among the first black women to work at the space agency as well as at its predecessor, the National Advisory ...

The agency is calling for poets, songwriters, and more who are inspired by space. And the ‘moon joy’ will keep on rolling.

(CNN) — For decades, the contributions of the black, female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden. Not anymore. Now, you’ll be reminded of what the women ...

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 from ...

(CNN) – By the time NASA was preparing to send John Glenn to space for the historic Mercury-Atlas 6 mission computers were used to calculate launch conditions. It wasn’t long before then that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA notes that the event challenge and not a contest. Attention creative souls! While NASA might feel like an exclusive den of ...