Scientists are calling for the cataloging of human artifacts left on Mars — from spacecraft and landers to rovers, probes, and other debris — to document humanity’s earliest steps in ...

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts ...

How important is it to preserve human artifacts on Mars, specifically the myriads of rovers and landers that have helped us better understand the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in ...

Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's first attempts at interplanetary exploration.

Anthropologists are urging space organizations to develop a record of all human-made artifacts that end up on Mars' surface. This catalog, they argue, would help document mankind's efforts to hop ...

New scholarship by University of Kansas anthropologist Justin Holcomb argues physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle ...

NASA posted an image of two objects the Mars Perseverance rover passed while traversing the Martian desert: a discarded parachute and a metal capsule.

Was there once intelligent life on Mars? Consider the Face, a remarkably human-like image located in the Cydonia Mensae region of the Red Planet. NASA says it's just a natural formation but, as ...

Discarded debris is common during Mars and Moon missions, but they're not trash piles but precious artifacts of our first footsteps on another planet. And one day they'll be incredibly valuable ...

When liquid water still existed on Mars, it carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks, NASA said. Once the liquid dried, it ...

He then investigates the likelihood of any artifacts remaining from those civilizations (low on worlds such as Venus and Earth, higher for places like Mars) today.