A crater 222 metres in diameter and 43 metres deep, formed in the spring of 2024, was spotted by NASA in August 2025 during a routine quality control check

It is the largest recently formed crater ever observed in the solar system; the previous record on the Moon was only 70 metres in diameter

According to researchers, an impact of this magnitude occurs on the Moon only once every 132 years – an event they consider virtually unique in a human lifetime