A discarded section of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to collide with the Moon in the early hours of Wednesday after spending more than a year drifting through space. According to Reuters, the object is the rocket’s second stage that helped launch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander in January 2025. The impact is not part of a planned mission but the result of natural gravitational forces that gradually altered the rocket stage’s path.