As Earth mounts new missions to the Moon with plans of sending humans for longer missions and building bases, a big threat remain meteor impact and once such explosion was captured late in October.

On the night of October 30, 2025, something big crashed onto the Moon, producing a spectacular explosion that was visible all the way from Earth.

The rare lunar impact flash was captured on video by amateur astronomer Daichi Fujii, who shared the footage on X. The flash occurred at 20:33:13.4 and was recorded at 270 frames per second with 0.03x speed playback, revealing the moment a crater was formed on the Moon's night side.

20251030203313.4(270fps,0.03) pic.twitter.com/MM3xleCZSJ — (@dfuji1) October 30, 2025

Since the Moon has no atmosphere, meteoroids don’t produce the streaks we see

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