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 ...

Katherine Johnson blazed trails, not just as a black female mathematician during the Cold War, but by mapping literal paths through outer space. Her math continues to carve out new paths for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Texas Computer Education Association’s annual conference in Austin in early February, Texas Instruments announced that it has teamed up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

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 did even ...

NASA succeeded in its Moon landing mission 50 years ago tomorrow on July 20, 1969. The historic Apollo 11 mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly to the Moon and ...