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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

Over the past 60 years or so of space exploration, humans have left some things behind: bits of satellites, moon buggies, Mars rovers, even human excrement. It’s all part of the countless bits of ...

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. Are human ...