Garbage Dump Reveals Fossils While Making Room For Trash
The Can Mata landfill in Catalonia, Spain, digs vast pits in sandy soil, which allows researchers to watch for solid bits and recover bits of bone and skeleton pieces.
Lucky Hiker Discovers Petrified Forest With Fossilized Animals
In the summer of 2020, a park ranger was walking near the Mokelumne River watershed outside Sacramento and spotted what appeared to be a petrified tree.
Planetary Census Finds Jupiters Prefer Outer Solar Systems
The California Legacy Survey of exoplanets is looking at 719 sunlike stars and recently released data on fifteen new planets and found that our gas giants are pretty normal in position.
Helium Rain Falls in Laboratory Saturn
In a new experiment, researchers used diamond anvils and shock waves to compress a mixture of hydrogen and helium to pressures like those expected in Saturn’s atmosphere and found helium rain.
Boulders Tell Story of Asteroid Ryugu’s Formation
Thermal imagery of Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft revealed the surface is randomly scattered with extremely low-density boulders that are more like giant pumice stones than the high-density boulders we’re used to thinking of.
This Week in Rocket History: Skylab 2
This week in history we take a look back at the wildest crewed mission we’ve covered to date, Skylab 2. Or Skylab 1. Either way, Murphy’s Law had a hold of this mission.
Deep Dive: Why We Use Hydrolox Fuel
In special deep dive segment, we take a look at why so many launches use hydrolox fuel, a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
VSS Unity Succeeds at Suborbital Flight
On May 22, the Virgin SpaceShip Unity suborbital plane made its twentieth flight, the first successful powered flight of the vehicle from its new base at Spaceport America, New Mexico.
China Sends Up Ocean Monitoring Satellite
On May 19, a Long March 4B launched the Haiyang 2D ocean monitoring satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China.
SBIRS GEO-5 Launches
On May 18, an Atlas V launched the SBIRS GEO-5 mission into geostationary transfer orbit from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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