Part of a used SpaceX rocket floating in space since last year crashed at high speed into the moon on Wednesday. The object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that ‌had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025. 

Although the impact was not visible to the naked eye on Earth, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the debris plume resulting from the crash.