When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Justin Holcomb Scientists are calling for the cataloging of human artifacts left on ...

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 ...

Map of Mars illustrating the fourteen missions to Mars, key sites, and examples of artifacts contributing to the development of the archaeological record: (B) Viking-1 lander; (C) trackways created by ...

The now-defunct Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew over and snapped pictures in April 2022 of debris flung onto the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover's landing capsule. No astronaut has ever stepped ...

Mar Short, a Martian jazz-house artist, was born and raised in lava tubes at the bottom of the Valles Marineris, a 2,500-mile-long canyon that stretches along the Red Planet’s equator. Short’s ...

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 from ...

Picture yourself as a future settler on Mars. You gaze across a cold, barren landscape painted in rusty red and gray hues.

First contact with alien civilizations won’t be with the beings themselves, but with their technology. By searching for these extraterrestrial artifacts, we embark on a journey through our solar ...

As we delve deeper into the mysteries of the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to reveal intriguing features on Mars’ surface. Among these are the captivating images of blue sand dunes ...