SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage to crash into Moon, posing no danger to Earth: NASA

Now on Wednesday, scientists expect the Moon will experience yet another collision, this time from a drifting SpaceX rocket that has been travelling at around 2.43 kilometres per second, or about 5,400mph.

Following their earnings call on Tuesday that left the industry baffled, Elon Musk's SpaceX is bracing for a head-on collision of its Falcon 9 rocket with the moon.

The school bus-sized object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace towards the moon ‌in January 2025.

The rocket piece is expected to hit Einstein crater on the ​moon’s western limb, which is often difficult to see from Earth.