Pathfinder’s lander suffered what is being written up today as the first bug on Mars. When the lander collected Martian weather data, its computer would crash. Like many other spacecraft ...

Astronauts will wriggle into their spacesuits next week to swab outside the International Space Station and see if the lab orbiting 250 miles above Earth is releasing microorganisms into space. The ...

But pareidolia is surprisingly common for Mars. So far, people have spotted rocks that look like a bear’s face, fungus, a carved image of a warrior, a small bigfoot, a spoon and even bugs.