NASA shared an initial analysis of a 5-foot-wide fireball meteor that exploded in the sky over the northeastern U.S. on Saturday, May 30.

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

A meteor caused quite a commotion this weekend after it broke up in Massachusetts, with people across the Northeast seeing and hearing the fireball. One NBC5 viewer, Ashton Albright of Jeffersonville, ...

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

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 ...

A meteor exploded high above New England on May 30, producing a sonic boom that was heard across parts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and neighboring states, including portions of New York. According ...

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 ...