Tardigrades on the Moon: An Unplanned Experiment

Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen. In this episode of AI Investigates, we dive into the bizarre true story of how thousands of tardigrades—those tiny, indestructible "water bears"—crash-landed on the Moon thanks to a rogue Israeli spacecraft. Oops. We explore what this unexpected delivery means for space contamination protocols, the ethics of interplanetary hitchhikers, and whether we just accidentally kicked off Moon evolution. Spoiler: they’re not taking over (yet), but NASA’s pretty annoyed.