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A new book details the turn-of-the-century Mars craze It’s not aliens. It’s never aliens. Claims of extraterrestrial life are so common that experts now have this cheeky retort at the ready. In The ...

Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and never more so than in recounting the endeavors of yesteryear’s gentleman scientists. In the case of “The Martians,” Percival Lowell fills that role, he of the ...

The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances. But the reality would be dreadful, according ...