According to a tweet from the National Weather Service in Cleveland, the fireball and boom was the result of a meteor that crashed somewhere in Northeast Ohio.

A meteor caused a loud boom heard across the Ohio Valley on March 17, but a meteor strike in the mid-Atlantic seems unlikely.

Multiple videos have captured the moment the meteor's impact was felt across the region.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky over parts of Ohio and western Pennsylvania on Tuesday March 17 2026 around 9 a.m. EDT triggering reports of a loud sonic boom shaking homes and prompting widespread calls to emergency services.

The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet to find the crater.

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the astronomers’ suspicions were confirmed—the asteroid was ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.