TEMPE, Ariz. – A six-minute rocket firing on September 30 has put NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades recently spotted something it never has before in well ...

NASA's longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since launching 23 years ago. During that time, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has been ...

One of Mars' tallest volcanoes peeps over a thick layer of clouds, in Odyssey’s first picture of Arsia Mons peering over the Red Planet's horizon. Reading time 2 minutes Floating in orbit above Mars, ...

A dazzling image taken by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows an unprecedented view of a 12-mile-high volcano poking through clouds at dawn on the Red Planet. Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s ...

A new panorama from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the red planet's biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn. Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes ...

NASA’s venerable 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has delivered a stunning new panorama of the Red Planet, revealing the colossal Arsia Mons volcano majestically peeking above a canopy of morning clouds.

An artistic rendering of the Odyssey spacecraft in orbit over Mars. NASA NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet for over two decades, has captured a spectacular ...

Mars is a dead world, showing the barest hints of geological activity today. But in the distant past, it was a tumultuous planet that spawned the largest volcano in the solar system. Olympus Mons ...

NASA scientists say the images provide far more than just a striking never-before-seen view of the Martian geography. Studying the features detailed in Odyssey's photos could help NASA prepare for ...