Mysterious explosion on the Moon? Something just crashed on the Moon, and the hit was visible on Earth; photo inside

A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid ...
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NASA Proposes Blowing Up Asteroid 2024 YR4 So It Doesn't Hit The Moon

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The Moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year − a physicist explains why

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UChicago researchers make new discoveries about Theia, the object believed to have hit the earth to form the moon

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing that hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago?