It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Beaker the Muppet on Mars? A formation on the south pole region of the Red Planet captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks eerily familiar to The Muppets ...

A new NASA photo of Mars shows a spot on the plant’s surface that looks to some people like Beaker, the scientist Muppet. It’s an “overdue honor for Earth’s most-abused Muppet,” says Live Science.

Sorry, Elon Musk, but Beaker is now the first scientist to colonize Mars. NASA published a high-resolution photo of a dust storm on Mars’ south pole, revealing a ...

Quite a few years ago, I don’t really know how, the Muppets character Beaker became C&EN’s unofficial mascot. If you are not familiar with the Muppets (what planet have you been living on?), Beaker is ...