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 interpl ...

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 ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

Bethany Ehlmann, a Professor of Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology and a Mars rover scientist. “But these are not just trash piles—they’re artifacts of our first ...

is calling for NASA and other space agencies to catalog and preserve human-made artifacts on Mars as key archaeological resources. Their research commentary titled The Emerging Archaeological ...

Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars ... [+] rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm.