Israel’s Beresheet lander crashed into the Moon in 2019 carrying several thousand tardigrades in a dehydrated, dormant state—and although later experiments suggest they probably did not survive the impact, nobody knows whether any remain intact enough to

Beresheet crashed in 2019 with thousands of dormant tardigrades aboard. A later impact study suggests they probably did not survive, but the case is not closed. The post Israel’s Beresheet lander…