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The moon has a brand new crater as of Wednesday, thanks to a rogue SpaceX rocket that crashed into Earth’s nearest neighbor at 5,400 miles an hour.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

A new crater may have been made on the Moon after a SpaceX rocket was believed to have crashed into the surface.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

AFP footage from the site showed a huge crater in the ground, next to which dozens of Palestinians sifted through what appeared to be medical supplies that had been scattered by the blast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

As Psyche moved closer, the cameras recorded detailed features on the surface, including wind-shaped craters, the south polar ice cap, and the large double-ringed Huygens crater.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

Peter’s belly was suddenly a hollow, snarling crater.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

It is a dream moment for planetary scientists because it lets them test their models of how impacts dig out craters, throw debris across the surface, and send tremors through the Moon's interior.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The modeling shows that the Eulalia breakup could plausibly explain the increase in lunar craters dated to roughly 800 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Around 200 confirmed impact craters exist on land, and only about 33 have been identified beneath the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

The frozen water locked in permanently shadowed craters could one day be used for drinking water, oxygen and rocket fuel during future missions.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Similar blast craters had crumbled a middle tier, where there were a handful of seats for spectating.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

His credit score had cratered from 753 to 563 and he was close to $75,000 in debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

By almost any measure, tourism to the United States has cratered.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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

Agilysys shares cratered earlier this year amid the AI-driven software selloff.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

From here I had a sweeping 360-degree view of the surrounding cratered landscape, stretching to the horizon in all directions.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

With a clearer picture of the future, it can invest more carefully in fabrication plants to satisfy overflowing demand without cratering prices down the line.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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

To make matters worse, oil prices fell by half in the first two years of Maduro’s presidency, cratering public finances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 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