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

After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as it ...

Despite being hidden by the glare of the sun, plenty of space-based cameras are snapping photos of 3I/ATLAS that you should ...

One of the clean rooms where scientists discovered T. phoenicis for the first time was during preparations for NASA’s Phoenix ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

A strange rock standing alone in the dusty expanse of Jezero Crater on Mars has captured the attention of planetary ...

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 ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways to create Mars-like ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

NASA has sent over three drones for a test in California's Death Valley, and it aims to solve the issues of Ingenuity for a ...