A meteor hurtling toward  Earth's atmosphere exploded over the northeastern United States , causing a loud double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to reports on Saturday. The phenomenon released energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, accounting for the loud noise, the US space agency,  NASA , wrote in a statement posted on X. The meteor, measuring about 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) wide, entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with