A SpaceX Rocket Is Thought To Have Crashed Into The Moon, Months After Warning

“It’s something really huge smashing into the moon.”

In May of this year, astronomer Bill Gray said on his site, Project Pluto, that a large section of SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 was set to crash into the moon on August 5.

He couched his prediction a little, saying: “I can be sure it will impact near the time and place I’ve predicted, but those varying forces mean that the actual impact will be at least a little off from that time and place”.

But scientists, including those from the Paranal Observatory in Chile, seem to have spotted the crash on its predicted date this morning. Nasa expected the incident to have taken place at 7:35am BST.

The space agency added that the collision will probably........

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