Castaway SpaceX rocket stage crashed into moon: Scientists

NEW YORK: Part of a SpaceX rocket approximately the size of a bus slammed into the moon as predicted, scientists said on Wednesday (Aug 5), after a telescope in Chile captured evidence of a stream of debris.The collision, which was not intentional, posed no danger to Earth and is expected to have left a lunar crater in its wake that space agencies, including NASA, still hope to document.Scientists anticipated the Falcon 9 upper stage was going to strike the lunar surface at approximately 6.35am GMT (2.35pm, Singapore time) on Wednesday.And it did, the European Southern Observatory said on social media on Wednesday, based on observations recorded by its Very Large Telescope. The telescope "detected spectral lines", the observatory said, which it called "chemical fingerprints" of "sodium and