Nasa chiefs are “giving a lot of thought” to meteor strikes on the lunar surface in ambitious plans to develop a base on the Moon .

Space agency boss Jared Isaacman has said there were going to be potentially hazardous environmental factors that needed to be taken into account in establishing an outpost.

He made his comments after it was revealed, last month, that a comet or asteroid the size of a building up to six-storeys high had crashed into the moon’s surface back in 2024.

The impact left a crater about 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep.

The proposed lunar outpost would provide a continual human presence on the moon (Nasa) (PA Media)

Scientists have described the magnitude of the collision as a “once-in-a-lifetime” incident, which occurred around every century.

During the Artemis II space mission, earlier this year, around the far side of the Moon, the astronauts aboard observed several flashes as small space rocks, known as meteoroids, slammed directly into the lunar surface at high speeds without…