NASA spacecraft discovers fresh lunar crater from asteroid the size of a six‑storey building

A NASA spacecraft has spotted a fresh crater on the Moon caused by an asteroid roughly the size of a six‑storey building. Scientists say the impact is a rare event, describing it as a once‑in‑a‑century or once‑in‑a‑lifetime occurrence. The impact threw rocks up to 120 kilometres away from the new crater. The discovery was announced by NASA officials after the spacecraft’s instruments detected the sudden burst of debris and the fresh scar on the lunar surface. Researchers highlighted that such a large, recent impact provides a unique chance to study how lunar material behaves when struck by an object from space. The find adds a new feature to the Moon’s landscape that will be examined in future observations and may help refine models of impact frequency across the Earth‑Moon system.