Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were whispering with electricity right under your feet. For the first time, ...

Today, the planet Mars presents itself as a cold, arid desert, but its soil retains the imprint of a far more welcoming past.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrical discharges turn out to be quite common inside Martian dust devils. (Credit: NASA/JPL) New evidence from NASA, published ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA rover on Mars has been knocked out by gigantic dust storm that envelops the planet and blots out the sun. Officials said Wednesday they're hopeful the Opportunity ...

We may be closer to unravelling the mystery of how the dry, arid Mars used to be covered in water from new research that focuses on an unexpected event (a powerful dust storm) at an unexpected time ...

(CNN) — Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic ...