The HUMANS project, a silicon wafer on the moon encoded with voices from around the world, is an MIT collaboration blending art and science, showcasing computational design and fabrication.

The Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) nanowafer will be launched on NASA's Axiom-2 mission in May. The recording of text and audio in over 64 languages from 80 countries is a combined effort between AeroAstro, the MIT Media Lab, and MIT.nano.

MIT's MOXIE experiment has now produced oxygen on Mars. It is the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Red Planet, and a key step in the goal of sending humans on a Martian mission.

Three MIT payloads — the AstroAnt microrover, a camera, and the HUMANs disc — are set to land on the moon via the Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, as a step toward establishing a permanent base in the south polar region.

A patchwork of volunteer-run mutual aid organizations has sprung up to tackle the severe problems facing people fleeing genocide.