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

Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.

People reported seeing the glowing space rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Experts estimate that it was about three feet wide and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour whe

Attleboro area police departments and regional public safety dispatch centers fielded numerous calls from worried and curious residents about the sonic boom heard Saturday afternoon that was later det

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

The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor, according to meteorologist Danielle Noyes. Now it's up to NASA to confirm what happened.

How high did you jump when the boom from a meteor exploding in Massachusetts thundered across New England on Saturday, May 30 in the afternoon? Probably not as high as this dog. A thunderous boom was heard from Rhode Island to New Hampshire after NASA confirmed a meteor exploded over Cape Cod Bay.

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

On Saturday at around 2:06 pm ET, residents across northeastern United States witnessed a dazzling fireball streak across the sky, culminating in a powerful explosion over Cape Cod Bay. Captured on cameras and visible in satellite imagery,