A fireball reached 75,000 miles per hour before breaking up miles above New England, NASA said, causing a boom that alarmed residents. The incident followed a similar event in South Carolina.

Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

This week's science news.

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft is approaching one of the most significant moments of its development as it prepares for its first flights above the speed of sound. According to NASA, the quiet supersonic research jet is entering a new phase of testing that will push it beyond previous limits and move it closer to demonstrating a future where commercial aircraft can travel faster than sound without producing the disruptive sonic booms that have restricted supersonic operations over land for decades.

NASA offers a simple way to see which stunning celestial image the Hubble Space Telescope captured on your birthday.

See the rare crescent views, icy poles, and massive craters Psyche snapped while slingshotting past Mars on its 2.2-billion-mile trip to asteroid 16 Psyche.

NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its aging Swift space telescope will be this fall, so a private spacecraft can boost its altitude.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says declassified UAP files show real unexplained phenomena but no alien bodies or crashed ships have been found.