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

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 detected electrical sparks in dust devils on the planet Mars. The crackles, which the rover ...

The new Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is more than a fresh control room, it is a deliberate ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...

The Perseverance Mars rover captures a super rare phenomenon for the first time caused by dust devils on the surface of the ...

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 ...

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.

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

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...