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

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you hear the loud boom over Rhode Island on Saturday? By now, you likely know that the source of the noise was a meteor ...

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.

Did you hear the loud boom over Rhode Island on Saturday? By now, you likely know that the source of the noise was a meteor exploding over Cape Cod Bay, as NASA identified. "Eyewitnesses in New ...