A four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket is expected to crash into the Moon at 5,400mph on Wednesday, creating a new crater and potentially sending a plume of debris up to 62 miles above the lunar surface.
The school-bus-sized object is the spent upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket launched in January 2025. It is predicted to strike near Einstein crater on the Moon's western edge at around 6.35am GMT on 5 August.
