How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Faculty and alumni from across six decades reflected on Brown University’s impact as an international hub for solar system ...

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may ...

Dorothy Vaughan was a trailblazing mathematician and computer programmer who significantly contributed to the U.S. space program. As NACA’s (later NASA) first African American manager ...

Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden worked in a segregated department at NASA’s Langley Research Center but eventually became known as “human computers ...

She later became a leading computer programmer as a part of NASA's analysis and computation ... one of its original buildings as the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo." ...

This undated photo provided by NASA shows Dorothy J ... Gold Medal to Johnson, Jackson, Vaughan, Darden and "all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers" at NASA and ...

Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan ... who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA between the 1930s ...

NASA dedicated a Johnson Space Center building Friday after NASA mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and other women who helped the Apollo missions succeed during the 1960s and 1970s. The ceremony ...

Building 12 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has been named the "Dorothy Vaughan Center ... to the newly-founded NASA, Vaughan and many of the West Computers joined the new Analysis ...