SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:26:55 GMT

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hourA four-tonne piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon at high speed, in a collision that poses no danger to Earth but was expected to blast out a new lunar crater.The object, the size of a building, is part of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from the US company Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025. Continue reading...

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