Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing an estimated four tons and traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour unintentionally crashed into the moon early Wednesday morning.

And it's not the first instance of a lunar crash.

A piece of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon Aug. 5. Now, a lunar orbiter has captured photos of the resulting crater.

Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site in the ...

The impact wasn't visible to the naked eye, but photos are expected to come from a lunar satellite at a later time.

Debris from rocket fell into a planned safety control zone near the southern tip of Taiwan. Parallel paths… Details about Wednesday’s rocket test are scarce, but the flight likely involved a sub-scale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Predicated as early as April, the lunar crash had for months attracted considerable attention from astronomers and the general ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The side of the moon that faces Earth likely got a new crater just after 2:30 a.m. ET today, Wednesday, Aug. 5. A few months ago, ...

NASA's lunar orbiter returned photos from the crash site where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had left a 60-foot crater on the surface of the moon.

California's Vandenberg is on pace for another record year for rocket launches. A new forecast predicts even more are ahead ...