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The crater appeared after a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface on Aug. 5.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Locating the crater involved cooperation among professional researchers and amateur observers around the world.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

The images they captured from different viewing angles brought out different features, including brighter and darker streaks fanning out around the crater.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

In March 2022, a rocket slammed into the moon, creating a double crater about 95 feet wide.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

“The rounder the object hitting the moon, the faster an object is traveling, the farther away an object is from the moon, the larger the crater it creates.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

He said his telescopes allowed people to see the solar event in detail, including craters on the moon.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Such clues can include ancient eruption deposits, volcanic craters, rising or sinking ground, and escaping gases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Asteroids and meteors have given the satellite its signature pockmarked surface and network of craters.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

That conclusion was based on the estimated ages of major lunar craters and the ages of impact glass collected during the Apollo missions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

He leaped out of the coffin with ease, and where his feet touched the floor, the marble froze like craters of ice.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

If now the telescope be directed to Alkes, there will be found, following him at a distance of 42·5 s, and about one minute southerly, a small red star, R. Crateris.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

The star Alkes, or α Crateris, must first be found.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

This is R Crateris, now known to be variable from above the 8th magnitude to below the 9th.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore

Each attempt went bust when global economic downturns cratered the semiconductor market and sent chip prices plummeting.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Fox also unloaded its regional cable sports networks — a savvy move before that business cratered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Propelled by CEO Elon Musk’s inimitable charm, sales collapsed after the first year; resale values also cratered, as few wanted to rehome Musk’s troubled teen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

During the encounter, the spacecraft captured a series of images, including a striking view of the double-ring Huygens crater surrounded by the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

If the Moon is so severely cratered by impacts, how has the Earth avoided them?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Skillfully collating the accounts of Auden’s intimates, he offers details about the poet’s sexuality, psyche, cratering appearance and deteriorating habits that are painful to contemplate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

But the broader policy has remained in place and “the numbers are still cratering on them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Either way, his poll numbers have been cratering for the last two months.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

The duties came as the company was facing a triple whammy of cratering sales in China, stagnant demand in Europe and the costs of investing into electric cars despite patchy demand.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson