The Moon has a new man-made crater. A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage struck the lunar surface on August 5, 2026, near Einstein Crater. NASA, South Korea’s Danuri orbiter and Earth-based telescopes ...

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed into Moon on Aug. 5, forming 60-foot crater.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Predicated as early as April, the lunar crash had for months attracted considerable attention from astronomers and the general ...

A NASA lunar orbiter captured images of a crater left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket part that crashed into the moon. The crater is approximately 60 feet wide and 10 feet deep, about the size of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has captured its clearest look yet at the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket stage crashing into the moon, revealing a fresh crater ...

Earlier this week, a piece of a SpaceX rocket joined the ranks of space rocks and other wayward spacecraft that have slammed into the moon and become permanent fixtures of our celestial neighbor's ...

1:58 SpaceX rocket stranded, drifting in space, crashes into moon and forms new crater Scientists say parts of a drifting SpaceX rocket crashed on the moon Wednesday morning, marking the conclusion of ...

A stray SpaceX rocket stage is believed to have crashed into the Moon, creating a new crater near the famous Einstein crater. The object was the empty upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which ...

The “school bus” sized Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage struck the lunar surface around 2:35 p.m. EDT at about 5,400 mph — which is about 7 times the speed of sound, according to multiple reports. While ...