NASA says that the meteor was traveling around 11 miles per second (17 kilometers per second) when it entered the atmosphere.
Thermoelectric generators probably won’t eliminate the charger for your Apple Watch, but for smaller, screenless wearables, the heat constantly escaping from your skin could fundamentally change how we power our devices.
Scientists confirmed that the crater dates back around 390 million years ago.
An analysis of the space rock traced its origin to a primitive asteroid from the early solar system.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a United Airlines plane that was flying over Utah when something smashed into its windshield.
For the first time, physicists have directly measured the temperature of extremely hot gold particles using a giant X-ray laser—a breakthrough with major implications for engineering spacecraft or nuclear fusion reactors.
Until now, only 6% of meteorites had a known source, but now we can trace the origin of more than 70% of these rocks.