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A close up of the International Space Station. | Credit: NASA
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NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners…
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Earth’s continents stabilized due to furnace-like heat, study reveals
The researchers distinguished between high-temperature (HT) and ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) conditions. Smye and his co-author, Peter Kelemen, professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, noticed a striking consistency to…
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This 250-year-old equation just got a quantum makeover
How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the situation. This simple idea forms the basis of Bayes’ rule, a mathematical approach to calculating probabilities first introduced in 1763. Now, an…
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Simulating Complex Coronal Mass Ejections Shows A Weakness In Space Weather Forecasting
Avoiding, or at least limiting the damage from, geomagnetic storms is one of the most compelling arguments for why we should pay attention to space. Strong solar storms can have an impact on everything from air traffic to farming, and we…
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