Two years ago, the moon absorbed a blow that went unwitnessed by any human eye — a fragment of rock several stories tall carving a crater nearly three-quarters of a mile wide into the lunar surface. Scientists at NASA discovered the wound only in August 2025, sorting through archived imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and what they found was the largest fresh impact crater recorded in the modern era. Named McGetchin, the scar is a reminder that the solar system remains a place of sudden, violent change — and that humanity's plans to settle the moon must reckon with a ground that is