SpaceX splashdown and more: Understand the world through 10 images

In Madagascar, an international team of researchers found a nearly complete skeleton and, in turn, identified a new species of ancient suction-feeding turtle, named Sahonachelys mailakavava.

SpaceX deployed 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit in its 10th deployment this year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says more than 500,000 people have signed up for Starlink’s internet service.

Researchers from the University of Arkansas created a map of the Moon’s Schrödinger basin, which they say could one day guide lunar missions.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut developed a process that may help farmers grow cannabis using micropropagation. The technique could lead to more consistent cannabis crops.

Finnish researchers determined that a new type of aurora borealis is likely caused by increased oxygen concentration in the atmosphere. New aurora types are rarely discovered; this “dunes” formation was first recorded in 2016.

Scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology developed a way to use citrus byproducts as an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil-based polymers in the production of transparent wood.

NASA’s first commercial crew mission with SpaceX came to an end with Crew-1 landing in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the first pre-dawn splashdown since Apollo 8 in 1968.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its fourth successful flight on Mars. It was the longest flight yet for Ingenuity, the first powered aircraft to fly on another planet.

Researchers from Germany and Spain completed the first anatomical study of Ramisyllis multicaudata, a rare type of worm with a branching body that lives inside sponges.

Researchers are using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe a Jupiter-sized planet forming in a system 370 lightyears from Earth. They say it could provide insight into how gas giants formed in our own solar system.