For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the ...

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Firefly plans to launch its lander toward the moon’s South Pole by the end of 2026. Assuming it arrives in one piece, the ...

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...