Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New scholarship by University of Kansas anthropologist Justin Holcomb argues physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle ...

Meteorites are uncommon, Martian meteorites even more so, so it shouldn't be a surprise that a big rock from Mars has sold ...

Archaeologists call for tracking and preserving artifacts left on Mars to chronicle humans’ first attempts at interplanetary exploration.

A 54-pound (25-kilogram) meteorite – the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth –is now the subject of an investigation in Niger. The meteorite fetched more than US$5 million (£3.71 million) at an ...

The 54-pound meteorite from Mars was discovered in the Sahara in northwestern Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023.

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.