At 06:35 UTC on August 5, 2026, a 4,900 kg spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon near the Einstein Crater at 5,400 mph, releasing the energy equivalent of three tons of TNT. The object, cataloged as 2025-010D, was the second stage of a rocket that launched Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 and ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 2 in January 2025. Solar activity and gravitational forces caused its unplanned return to the Moon, but the collision had been...