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

Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ladies Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe, but it was the story of the real NASA women behind the film that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space ...

Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.” ...

Annual award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions to the foundations of mobile computing, digital ...

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

These are great movies to watch for Black History Month that inform, inspire, and ignite a thirst to see more stories like them.

Discover a special 'Hidden Figures' screening with $2 admission, snacks and a look inside Wisconsin’s Aviation Heritage Center in Sheboygan Falls.

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

West’s genius secured her a position in 1956 at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, then called Naval Proving Ground, where ...