Tiangong 1’s Remote Reentry

After an exciting last weekend in orbit, China’s first space station Tiangong 1 (Chinese for “celestial palace”) reentered Earth’s atmosphere early Monday morning on April 2nd at 00:16 Universal Time, give or take a minute, over the South Pacific. The United States Strategic Command’s Joint Space Operations Center lists the reentry as occurring over latitude […]

This Elementary-School-Age T. Rex Is a ‘1 in 100 Million’ Discovery

Paleontologists digging in Montana have hit the dinosaur jackpot. They’ve uncovered what appears to be an elementary-school-age Tyrannosaurus rex, they announced Thursday (March 29). The researchers found the fearsome beast’s remains in Montana’s famous Hell Creek formation, a rocky expanse chock-full of dinosaur-age fossils. Despite the site’s rich assemblage, the past 100 years have yielded […]