A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.

People across eastern Massachusetts are reporting hearing an extremely loud boom on Saturday afternoon, and many police departments in the state say they have been inundated with calls, but what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Lightning Mapper detected an exploding meteor over eastern ...

A meteor exploded just off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom, Saturday. Meteorologists have said a loud blast was likely a meteor.

The American Meteor Society said a boom heard by residents in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot wide meteor entering the atmosphere near ...

NASA said the energy released when the meteor broke up was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.

A meteor that caused a loud boom when it exploded over Massachusetts Saturday afternoon split into fragments four times larger than most meteorites, according to NASA.

Multiple videos show a rare "fireball" meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock hit the volcano, but ...

Local authorities have not yet confirmed the cause of the sound, and it remains unclear whether it was linked to an industrial incident, military activity or another event.

Residents across Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island were left startled Saturday afternoon after a powerful boom ...

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide".