A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although no one observed the actual 8700km/h collision, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the debris plume resulting from the crash. Space tracking experts said it was inevitable that the leftover segment of the rocket, which had launched a pair of lunar landers, plowed into the moon. In 2022, a Chinese rocket unintentionally hit the moon following a lunar mission and many more stray rocket pieces likely struck the moon in decades past without scientists’ knowledge. It’s the latest stray rocket to slam into the moon, with experts estimating hundreds of pieces of debris may have unknowingly already hit it.