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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA named 50 schools throughout the country on Tuesday for a program the space agency hopes will encourage students to study science, math and technology. The schools taking part in a three-year ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

If you thought math wouldn’t be a problem for rocket scientists, you’d be wrong. NASA has been overpaying contractors because the math officials there use to calculate performance awards is “overly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — By the time NASA was preparing to ...

St. Mary's High School students took on the roles of Wilbur and Orville Wright, brothers who invented the airplane, for a math and science project. The entire freshmen class at the all-boys school on ...

Who said math couldn't be fun? In honor of the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 4, 2015), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a dizzying math challenge. Hint: every solution will use the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating Pi Day (March 14) with a set of four math problems — featuring Martian craters, distant exoplanets, Saturn orbits and eclipses — to be understood ...

Now the accolades are pouring in. Johnson, who along with other African-American women had to overcome racial and gender discrimination to rise through the ranks of NASA in the 1950s and ’60s, has ...