Credit: Neil Armstrong/NASA Beyond establishing an anthropologic ... Still, the researchers are reluctant to think of mankind's Mars artifacts as junk. "These are the first material records ...

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New ...

University of Kansas (KU) scientists say human-made artifacts on Mars, like abandoned rovers and landers, that represent some ...

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...

Therefore, the team encourages developing a database for identifying and cataloging human artifacts on Mars and other worlds to increase their chances of preservation. Map depicting past and current ...

A map indicates the 14 mission locations on Mars, sites where a team of anthropologists says there are human-made artifacts that should be preserved. Credit: NASA / Justin Holcomb, et al.

NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing ...

NASA Mars Curiosity's view of Martian soil and boulders ... grasp of how climate and geology contribute to the degradation of artifacts on Earth, the otherworldly environments of planets like ...