The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Discussion will rage for months to come around 2001: A Space Odyssey, which, for size, cost, imaginative brilliance and perplexity, is light years ahead of any space film yet made.

Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet's largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet's largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars' south pole in this artist's concept illustration. Launched in 2001, Odyssey is the longest-running mission orbiting any planet besides Earth.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft completed its 60,000th orbit of the Red Planet on June 23, 2015. When Odyssey launched in April 2001 with a goal of better understanding Mars’ environment, the ...

The mission has been active for 24 years Launched back in 2001 by NASA, Odyssey has been circling Mars longer than any other spacecraft. It wasn’t always meant to take pictures like the one freshly ...

Since the 1960s, humans have set out to discover what Mars can teach us about how planets grow and evolve, and whether it has ever hosted alien life. So far, only uncrewed spacecraft have made the ...