In the quiet routine of data review, a NASA scientist glimpsed something the moon had not offered in perhaps a century: the fresh scar of a cosmic collision. Robert Wagner, analyzing lunar imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, identified a crater formed between April and May 2024 on the moon's eastern edge — 728 feet wide, 141 feet deep, and now the largest newly formed impact crater ever documented in the solar system. Named for lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, who died just months before the impact, the discovery reminds us that even the most familiar celestial body still holds the ca