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 ...

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 ...

Image: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images 2001: Space Odyssey (1968) If any film could be called the ‘source code’ of films about artificial intelligence (AI), it would be this.

NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the photo of Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which appears here as a greenish haze.