{"id":232912,"date":"2026-03-10T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-moon-was-hit-again-nasa-scientists-discover-a-newly-formed-crater"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:23:11","slug":"the-moon-was-hit-again-nasa-scientists-discover-a-newly-formed-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-moon-was-hit-again-nasa-scientists-discover-a-newly-formed-crater","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Was Hit Again: NASA Scientists Discover a Newly Formed Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-moon-was-hit-again-nasa-scientists-discover-a-newly-formed-crater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon\u2019s surface today. The Moon\u2019s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ongoing change. While its vast dark basins formed during a period of intense bombardment billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon\u2019s surface today. The Moon\u2019s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ongoing change. While its vast dark basins formed during a period of intense bombardment billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}