Asteroid the size of a 6-story building hit the Moon, created 728-foot crater; NASA says such impacts happen once a century

NASA has discovered a remarkably large new crater on the Moon that was created when a comet or asteroid roughly the size of a three- to six-story building slammed into the lunar surface.

The newly identified crater, officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, formed on the eastern edge of the Moon sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024.