When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dust devils on Mars could be crackling with electric currents, according ...

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

And with these 'dust devils' collected into a single public catalog, this research is just the beginning. Besides pure science, it will be useful for planning future missions, for example, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a rare occurrence, HiRISE captured an image of a live dust devil as it etched its track into ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

For two decades, images from European spacecraft have captured bits of unremarkable digital noise as they photograph Mars. Now, scientists have turned that noise into a breakthrough, cataloging 1,039 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA ...

Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...

YUCATAN, Mexico -- While the sight of a dust devil might send most people running, one man chose to run directly into a dust devil at the foot of a Mayan pyramid. Footage shared to Instagram by ...

Often spotted by onlookers in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, or even by YouTube livestream viewers, the long, ashy gray or ...

YUCATAN, Mexico -- While the sight of a dust devil might send most people running, one man chose to run directly into a dust devil at the foot of a Mayan pyramid. Footage shared to Instagram by ...