A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents who feared an explosion.

A 3-foot-wide meteor weighing about a ton broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday and exploded with the force of 26 tons of TNT. A piece of the space rock crashed into a home.

Learn how a fast-moving meteor exploded over Texas and where NASA says fragments may have landed near Houston.

Part of the meteorite that blazed through the Texas sky Saturday crashed through the roof of a Houston home. Does insurance that kind of damage?

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was seen from hundreds of miles away.

A meteor streaked over Northeast Ohio Tuesday morning, causing a loud boom. Experts say some fragments may have reached the ground.

Meteorite debris from a Houston fireball was detected on weather radar. Learn how radar tracks falling meteorites after a meteor breaks apart.

Thousands of people across eastern Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania heard a loud boom that NASA said was caused by a meteor entering the atmosphere on Tuesday, March 17.Dashcam footage from Matthew

What happened with the meteor that flew over Ohio and other parts of the U.S.? See videos of the moment and hear what it was like.

A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion. People hundreds of miles (kilometers) away reported seeing the bright fireball even though it was 9 a.