{"id":852249,"date":"2026-09-18T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:34:10","slug":"nasa-orbiter-spots-record-sized-new-crater-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852249\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA orbiter spots record-sized new crater on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tNASA orbiter spots record-sized new crater on the Moon &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>September 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/only-once-a-century-astronomers-stunned-by-massive-lunar-crater-discovery.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"bright spot, spotted by chance in an image of the Moon\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    This bright spot, spotted by chance in an image of the Moon, is not an artifact: it marks the exact location where a building-sized object struck the lunar surface in 2024. A closer look at this crater, which speaks volumes about the dangers of space exploration. \u00a9 LRO, NASA<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA orbiter spots record-sized new crater on the Moon &#8211; Futura-Sciences September 18, 2026 3 min This bright&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193,242761],"class_list":["post-852249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}