*Unfortunately, we’ve lost another pioneer and cultural giant. NASA has just released a statement saying that Katherine Johnson, the black female mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space ...

In DeSoto this week, students from one school are being immersed in the history of the woman who bears the name of their school and was immortalized in the movie "Hidden Figures." The classwork for ...

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...

West Virginia native Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. Johnson became a household name ...

Katherine Johnson, now a retired NASA research mathematician, was no stranger to geometry. She was the one who would calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. This was America's ...