Schiaparelli’s map went on to inspire the imaginings of Percival Lowell, an influential man with a major-league Mars obsession who believed that the canals were artificial, planet-spanning ...

Schiaparelli discovered 104 canals; Prof. Percival Lowell and his staff of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, have discovered over 350, and they regard this number as no limit.

In 1894, the public became excited by the idea too, after astronomer Percival Lowell suggested that Schiaparelli's observations showed canals that had been made by an alien civilization.

While Lowell was proven wrong by better telescopes, the question of whether there's liquid water on Mars continues to tantalize researchers. Liquid water is a critical precondition for a habitable ...

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 ...

It was likely H.G. Wells’s 1898 The War of the Worlds, a novel depicting a Martian invasion of Earth, that ignited our collective imagination—and fear—about alien life.

In 1894, the public became excited by the idea too, after astronomer Percival Lowell suggested that Schiaparelli's observations showed canals that had been made by an alien civilization.

Her uncle Giovanni Schiaparelli, an astronomer who discovered canals on Mars, had once noted his niece’s self-consciousness about her looks, and told Elsa her beauty marks formed the Great ...

Professor Lowell’s famous Martian “canals,” which for a long time were considered a probable sign of the intelligent direction of water, are now believed to be wide, shallow river valleys.

Sam: Schiaparelli’s canals were optical illusions, but there were real waterways on Mars. Mariner 9 beamed back thousands of photographs of the planet’s surface.