A detached portion of a SpaceX rocket collided with the moon Wednesday morning, a NASA official confirmed to Fox News Digital. The impact was made by the 8,818-pound upper portion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket while traveling at a speed of 5,400 mph, according to Reuters. The rocket stage is "expected to create a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep and throw dust and rock outward as ejecta," the NASA official told Fox News Digital. SpaceX launched the rocket in January 2025 as part of a mission to land the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the moon. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed Tuesday that the rocket portion had "a 100% chance of impacting the Moon."