NASA has confirmed that a SpaceX rocket hit the Moon, but added that there is no danger

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has hit the surface of the Moon in an unplanned collision , NASA reported, part of a launch in January 2025 that eventually crashed into the satellite after changing its trajectory due to a combination of solar activity and gravitational forces.

The U.S. space agency has stressed that the event "poses no risk to anyone on Earth or to any lunar equipment." Although this impact is not planned, NASA has downplayed the incidentand explained that such collisions are part of approved strategies to remove space hardware at the end of its useful life.

An Agency expert noted that in some missions, operators deliberately choose to crash their equipment into the lunar surface as a "predictable and traceable" method of removing components that have completed their mission.

In addition, NASA believes this accident offers a scientific opportunity for researchers to study the crater createdto improve tracking patterns for objects in space and to better understand how craters form when an object of known size and speed hits the lunar surface.

Meteorites, asteroids, comets, and other bodies have been shown to collide continually against the surface of the moon, shaping its present landscape.

In fact, astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission saw the flashes of impacts and the formation of new craters as they flew over the lunar surface, a phenomenon that remains common.