According to Nasa, the meteor released the equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT when it broke up.

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

Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a ...

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 ...

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

Residents across New England were left stunned after a powerful double boom rattled buildings and shook the ground, ...

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

It sounded like an explosion. For some, it felt like one. Just after 2 p.m. on May 30, residents across Massachusetts—and ...

A meteor that caused a loud boom when it exploded over Massachusetts Saturday afternoon split into fragments four times ...

A meteor travelling at 75,000mph caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the US on ...

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

The space rock was travelling through Earth's atmosphere at a speed of around 75,000mph.