Since 1971 when the Soviet Union's Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian ...

Anthropologists are urging space organizations to develop a record of all human-made artifacts that end up on Mars' surface.

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

Exploring Mars' human artifacts as historical treasures, not trash, offering insight into humanity's space migration.

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars ...

we can do that in outer space by following probes, satellites, landers, and various materials left behind. "There's a material footprint to this dispersal.” Mars, as our closest planetary ...

NASA's first two crewed Artemis moon missions have been pushed back to 2026 and 2027, respectively, and the move could have ...

Human-made objects on Mars, including spacecraft, landers, and rovers, may hold significant archaeological value rather than ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

On Earth, compasses always point north—but when you’re drifting outside our planet’s magnetosphere, things get more complicated.