A Moon Crater Wider Than Two Football Fields Went Unnoticed for More Than a Year and Left a 4-Mile Cold Zone
Nature World News | 23.09.2026 21:00
Sometime in spring 2024, a comet or asteroid possibly the size of a three- to six-story building slammed into the Moon's eastern edge. It carved what scientists describe as the largest newly formed crater ever found in the solar system, and no one noticed it at the time. The impact happened between April 11 and May 22, 2024, but the crater was not spotted until Oct. 24, 2025, during a routine comparison of before-and-after images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, according to NASA's announcement of the once-in-a-century crater.
