Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Lightning Mapper detected an exploding meteor over eastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A daytime meteor exploded high over New England on Saturday, producing a loud boom heard across much of eastern Massachusetts and ...

A daytime meteor exploded high over New England on Saturday, producing a loud boom heard across much of eastern Massachusetts and leaving evidence that fragments likely splashed down in Cape Cod Bay.

The meteor was relatively small — about 5 feet (1.6 meters) in diameter, NASA wrote in a statement on X. However, it faced incredible friction while tumbling through the atmosphere at about 42,000 mph ...