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

Dr. Justin Holcomb is an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out ...

No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn't mean humans haven't left their mark — literally.

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

“All of this material, including the trackways and even discarded pieces of this equipment, represent the material record of our species’ first steps across our solar system,” said Justin Holcomb, of ...

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

But therein lies the problem: There is no official list. And that's a major disservice to human history, says Justin Holcomb, an anthropologist and the paper's primary author. Holcomb asserts that ...

Credit: NASA / Justin Holcomb, et al. Usually when scientists talk about "space junk," they are referring to the immense amount of debris orbiting the planet that endangers satellites and ...

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