Learn more about the brilliant mathematician Katherine Johnson from local astronomer Ken Corey in his most recent column.

FAIRFAX, Va. - Sydney Lanier’s name sat atop a Virginia middle school for 60 years, but not anymore. The City of Fairfax School Board held a renaming ceremony on Friday and celebrated Lanier Middle ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Guilford County Schools is considering a major shift in its bond project plan that would pause construction of the future Katherine G. Johnson school near Colfax and reallocate more ...

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 ...

NASA has named a new research facility after pioneer Katherine Johnson, the trailblazing 99-year-old human computer whose incredible work as a NASA mathematician inspired the book and movie, "Hidden ...

Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), flanked by fellow mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) meet the man they helped send into orbit, John Glenn (Glen ...

People who live near the future site of the Katherine G. Johnson school in Guilford County say they are relieved to potentially see the project, and thus impending traffic and construction, pushed ...

Katherine Moore, daughter of Katherine Johnson, talks about her mathematician mom on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. The movie “Hidden Figures” is about Johnson’s work at NASA in the ...

In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. And last year, NASA dedicated the ...