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

The New England event came just days after a bright meteor was reported over Western New York during the early morning hours of May 27.

A fiery object disintegrated as it fell off the Boston coast, causing sonic booms heard across Massachusetts and reports of sightings along the Northeast.

For a few seconds on Saturday afternoon, people across the northeastern U.S. heard a loud explosion and felt buildings shake.

The New England event came just days after a bright meteor was reported over New York.

On Saturday, at around 2:06 pm ET, a meteor streaked over the northeastern US and exploded north of Cape Cod Bay. The ...

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

A sonic boom that left people across New England looking to the sky was likely a meteor, according to meteorologists. Police departments in Massachusetts began receiving calls Saturday afternoon of a ...

It sounded like an explosion. For some, it felt like one. Just after 2 p.m. on May 30, residents across Massachusetts—and well beyond—were jolted by a sudden, thunderous boom that rattled homes and ...

Meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart ...