In April, a privately spacecraft, named Beresheet, accidentally crashed into the lunar surface. It now appears possible that part of the payload of tardigrades might have survived the impact—and could still be alive on the Moon at this very moment.

India and Pakistan do not have the most cordial relationship. Skirmishes between these two nuclear-armed nations are not as uncommon as they should be, and tensions appear to be getting worse.

Since 1947, the hand of the Doomsday Clock has oscillated back and forth—a sort of prophet of nuclear catastrophe. The clock is intended as a symbolic representation of how strained international relations and continued nuclear arms development have provided a recipe for disaster.