Since Bill Gray's blog post earlier this month, other space observers have confirmed the data and agreed that the Falcon 9 rocket, which weighs about 4 metric tons, is set to crash into the far ...

Gray says he now thinks the rocket piece is from the Chang'e 5-T1 mission, ... which helped verify Gray's assessment that the space junk is from Chang'e 5-T1. Gray and McDowell both add a caveat.

On March 4th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s been in space for the last seven years is predicted to collide with the Moon. It’s a reminder that we may want to come up with better ways to ...

A rocket stage will slam into the moon on Friday (March 4), amid a dispute about which country launched it and discussions on the complexity of tracing human-made objects in deep space.

Gray now says he’s reasonably certain the rocket that’s about to collide with the moon belongs to China. In October 2014, the country’s space agency launched its Chang’e 5-T1 mission on a ...

On March 1, the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Command, which tracks low-Earth orbit space junk, released a statement saying that China's 2014 rocket never deorbited. Gray believes his orbital ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the Deep Space Climate Observatory, launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida in 2015. A piece of that rocket is expected to crash into the moon in March.

After at least seven years hurtling through space, a 3- ton (2.7 metric tons) discarded rocket stage has probably smashed into the moon today (March 4) at a blistering 5,771 mph (9,288 km/h). The ...

The President of the U.S. personally untangled some of the reins of that prematurely grey mare, the U.S. space program, ... with rocket engines designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off ...

The oldest giant chunk of space garbage dates back to 1959: It’s a Vanguard rocket body, left over after deploying a US Navy weather satellite, one of the early launches of the Space Age rivalry ...

The high-altitude chase started over Cape Canaveral on Feb. 17, 2023, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched. Thomas Parent, a NASA research pilot, was flying a WB-57 jet when the rocket ascended ...