A SpaceX rocket has made one final stop on its journey, though this landing was anything but mission planned. More than a year after completing its assignment, a discarded Falcon 9 rocket stage crash-landed on the Moon, leaving behind a fresh lunar scar and giving scientists an unexpected chance to study what happens when human-made objects collide with another world. The four-tonne upper stage was launched on January 15, 2025, carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander and ispace’s R
