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What Is Silica Gel and Why Do Packets of It Come With Everything You Buy?

Parker Solar Probe

A Sun's Eye View of the Solar System

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Chuck Yeager, First Pilot to Break the Sound Barrier, Dies at 97

Discovery STS120 2007 View From ISS

Why Did NASA Retire the Space Shuttle?

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Famed Arecibo Radio Telescope to be Decommissioned After Cable Failures

Wernher von Braun (played here by Sacha Seberg) oversees the launch of a Mercury-Redstone rocket in the television adaptation of "The Right Stuff." (Credit: NatGeo/Gene Page)

"Nerd TV" is a Trend. These Are the People Responsible for It.

The Right Stuff, 1959 NASA press conference - Gene Page/National Geographic/Disney+

Who Puts the Right into "The Right Stuff"?

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Technology

Next Generation Satellite Navigation Will Offer Centimeter Accuracy — at a Price 

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Despite Concerns, Space Junk Continues to Clutter Earth Orbit

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Watch Astronaut Scott Kelly Return to Earth After a ‘Year in Space’

Why astronomers don't report UFOs

The Physics of . . . Airplanes

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