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

People across eastern Massachusetts are reporting hearing an extremely loud boom on Saturday afternoon, and many police ...

Residents reported a sharp boom and shaking homes after a meteor fragmented high over New England, NASA said.

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

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Footage shows a dog being spooked by the sound and jumping up off a couch.

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

Seismometers caught a rare meteor blast over Cape Cod Bay, giving Woods Hole scientists a unique look at the explosion.

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

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 ...