SpaceX rocket booster slams into moon, creating crater that could be 16 feet deep

The impact wasn't visible to the naked eye, but photos are expected to come from a lunar satellite at a later time.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket part is reportedly the second stray piece of junk to slam into the Moon, unleashing a blast equivalent to three tonnes of TNT

NASA is observing the impact of the Moon crash using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets.

A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last ‌year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed early Wednesday morning, though the impact was unlikely to be confirmed for at least several hours. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lande

A SPACEX rocket has crashed into the Moon - creating a new crater after one year of drifting in space. Part of the Falcon 9 aircraft is understood to have struck the lunar surface at 5,400mph - with Nasa scientists now expected to study the collision. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched last year, before...

The collision will pose no danger to Earth but will leave behind a lunar crater.

Collision of Falcon 9 rocket stage offers scientists a chance to study lunar impacts.

SpaceX said one of its Falcon 9 rockets launched last year will crash on the moon early Wednesday morning, leaving a crater about 90 feet in diameter in its wake. The 8,800-pound rocket booster has been orbiting the moon since January 2025. Traveling at approximately 5,400 miles per hour, the booster is expected to imp

New crater likely to form after SpaceX rocket slams into the moon  CNN

Abandoned spacecraft will hit with the force of three tons of TNT and leave behind a hole in the lunar surface

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, telescopes around the world will try to capture something never seen from Earth: an old rocket slamming into the moon's daylight side.

A defunct part of a Falcon 9 rocket could slam into the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour, according to scientists.