A detached section of a SpaceX rocket struck the moon on Wednesday morning, a NASA official confirmed to Fox News Digital.

According to Reuters, the impact involved the 8,818-pound upper portion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket traveling at 5,400 mph. The NASA official told Fox News Digital that the stage is "expected to create a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep and throw dust and rock outward as ejecta."

SpaceX launched the rocket in January 2025 as part of a mission to land the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the moon. The upper portion was not intended to return to the lunar surface, but the NASA official said it was pulled back toward the moon by "solar activity and gravitational forces."

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed Tuesday that the rocket portion had "a 100% chance of impacting the Moon."

Despite the unusual nature of a human-made object hitting the moon, NASA said there is no danger to Earth. The official added that "a meteoroid with the same energy as the upper stage hits the Moon about every six days," providing a point of comparison for the impact in a setting where the Moon is frequently struck by natural debris.

NASA said the discarded section was projected to impact the moon near the Einstein crater at 2:35 a.m. Wednesday.

During a Wednesday morning appearance on "Fox and Friends," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the impact was not a cause for concern and said reusable rockets will reduce the likelihood of similar events in the future.

"First of all, I'd say we've made a ton of progress. America leads the world in this regard. It used to be the case that all rockets were disposed in the ocean. Now you've watched over the last few years, I mean, SpaceX has recovered more than 600 of their boosters by bringing them back in a spectacular way to land on ships and land back on land," he said.

"First, it's very infrequent to have things like the Falcon 9 second stage crash into the moon. Second, it's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days, but once you have reusable upper stages like Starship is doing, you're not going to be throwing them away, you're going to be turning them, landing them on the moon, and they're going to contribute to the city block we're trying to build on the lunar surface," Isaacman said.

NASA said it hopes to study the event and gather scientific data from the impact. The agency will use the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the ShadowCam instrument aboard South Korea’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter to "look for chances to image the site before and after the impact," the official told Fox News Digital.

"Image availability will depend on lighting, orbital timing, and spacecraft position, and it may take several days to receive imagery. Any data collected will help scientists better understand artificial impacts and their exploration implications," the official added.

Fox News Digital contacted SpaceX for additional comment.

Fox News Digital's Preston Mizell and Reuters contributed to this report.