straight channels (mistranslated as "canals" in English) on the surface of Mars. These channels were seen by other astronomers and were thought by some to be indicative of intelligent life and ...

More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes.

SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

Martians Build Canals! Percival Lowell peered through a telescope on an Arizona hilltop and saw the ruddy surface of Mars crisscrossed with canals. Hundreds of miles long, they extended in single ...

There’s something about Mars. It tickles the imagination like no other planet; in our stories about it, fact and fiction tend to blur. Nineteenth-century astronomers believed they saw canals on ...

In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni ... This means channels, but it was wrongly translated into English as canals, and many people interpreted the ...

More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers like Percival Lowell popularized the idea of Martian canals, suggesting that intelligent beings might have constructed them to transport ...