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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cornell Tech just landed more than $7 million from NASA and Schmidt Sciences to give arXiv — the massive open-access research hub — a serious upgrade. The money will help arXiv modernize its ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. For decades, the contributions of the black, ...

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 ...

Randy Paffenroth, associate professor of mathematical sciences, computer science, and data science, has a multi-part mission in this research project. Using machine learning, neural networks, and an ...