The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 ...

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 ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

WASHINGTON - The three African-American women whose stories were shared in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” will be awarded Congressional Gold Medals. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary ...

Katherine Johnson, a retired NASA mathematician of "Hidden Figures" fame, turned 101 today (Aug. 26). Johnson was a math whiz who joined NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for ...

I can remember the day I went to see “Hidden Figures” in theaters. I was a part of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program at my high school, and one of my teachers offered us ...

A bright student at Palmer Elementary School may be continuing her great-grandmother’s legacy by astronomically excelling in mathematics. Na Kia Boykin is the great-granddaughter of NASA Langley’s ...

Frank Graff asks "Hidden Figures" Christine Darden, Ph.D how she fell in love with math. Christine Darden, Ph.D, of Monroe, NC, was part of a generation of women of color blazing trails through the ...

Johnson helped pave the way for NASA achievements. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday morning ...