At long last, a Moon landing for SpaceX — just not the kind it was hoping for. After months of anticipation, a discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is believed to have careened into the Moon on early Wednesday morning.

NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal. During Artemis III in 2027, Orion astronauts will rendezvous and dock separately with prototype lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX,

Space Exploration Technologies Corp SPCX is targeting a human Moon landing in 2028, but one Wall Street analyst says investors remain skeptical of the timeline. SpaceX Targets ‘Boots on the Moon’ in 2028 On Tuesday,

A SpaceX rocket launched in 2025 from Florida's Kennedy Space Center is about to crash into the moon Aug. 5, leaving a fresh impact crater.

The upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 will collide with the moon on August 5, affording astronomers an opportunity to study the real-time effects of a lunar impact. NASA via Getty Images See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post ...

NASA plans a permanent moon base, nuclear spacecraft and Mars missions as Artemis launches a new era of deep-space exploration.

China has completed the world’s first in-orbit test of a 400-volt bus power system

A NASA astronaut cautioned that landing at the lunar south pole could leave an appendicitis-ridden crew member stranded there. Victor Glover, who piloted the Artemis II mission around the moon in April 2026,