Tagged: Martians

In summer 2011, a few Moroccan night owls saw Martians in the Sahara Desert. The otherworldly visitors didn’t arrive in a flying saucer, but on a 2.4-pound (1.1-kilogram) fragment of rock that glowed red-hot in Earth’s atmosphere before landing near the village of Tissint. OK,...

In summer 2011, a few Moroccan night owls saw Martians in the Sahara Desert. The otherworldly visitors didn’t arrive in a flying saucer, but on a 2.4-pound (1.1-kilogram) fragment of rock that glowed red-hot in Earth’s atmosphere before landing near the village of Tissint. OK,...

It’s October, which means it’s time to celebrate the creepy-crawlies. And what better way to do that than to help scientists identify spiders on Mars? Except, when it comes to Martian life, “spider” has a different definition, and it doesn’t involve arachnids skittering all over...

To truly become a multiplanetary species, humanity will have to learn to use the local resources on whatever alien world we choose to inhabit. In the case of Mars, that means constructing buildings from bricks fabricated with Martian material. The first human mission to the...

Before there were little green Martians and tall blond Venusians, there were deros. In the 1930s a Pennsylvania man named Richard Sharpe Shaver overheard them speaking through his welding equipment. And the voices — singularly unpleasant ones, obsessed with torture and sexual perversion — would...

A distant light hugging the Martian horizon as photographed by Curiosity was evidence to some of an underground civilization whose citizens didn’t keep their shades drawn on April 3 and 4. Here be Martians? Even the tiniest visual anomaly on Mars sends Earthlings reeling in...

Dr John Brandenburg believes that an old Martian civilization was wiped from the face of Mars in the distant past. Dr John Brandenburg has a PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics from the University of California at Davis and he is currently working as a plasma...

I’ve always had the feeling that there could be a strong connection between our planet and Mars. And the more I dug up on this subject, the more evident the connection became. In this article, I’ve puzzled together some of the latest scientific discoveries, so...

– Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it’s conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars.So, if there is life on Mars, Martian species may share genetic roots with life on Earth. More than 3.5 billion...