Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact two years ago that initially went undetected. The steep-sided hole measured about 728 feet across, the length of two football fields, and up to 141 feet deep, equivalent to three vertically stacked yellow…
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved out by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday. The 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster plowed into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Aug. 5 after drifting…
A wayward 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster is expected to slam into the moon very early on Wednesday in a rare case of a man-made collision with the lunar surface. The upper part of the rocket, which boosted two lunar landers into space in January 2025, disengaged as the two spacecraft went on their…
