CLEVELAND, Ohio — The moon is about to get a new crater, courtesy of a discarded piece of SpaceX rocket hardware. The spent upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to slam into the moon ...

For all its ancient, familiar features, the Moon is still changing—and sometimes in dramatic ways. Scientists recently identified a fresh 22-meter-wide crater by comparing orbital images taken years ...

Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used ...

A Falcon 9 upper stage has been stuck in a highly elliptical Earth orbit for over a year—and now it's on a collision course with the Moon. Reading time 3 minutes When SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched a pair ...

Skywatchers should not expect much of a show. Although the moon will be above the horizon for parts of the eastern United States and Canada at the time of the predicted impact, Gray says the flash ...