Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to ...

Martian dust creates frictional electricity that can change the planet's chemical composition.

So, Mars does have storms, but they’re far drier and dustier than the thunderstorms on Earth. Scientists are continually ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first-ever evidence of lightning on Mars, characterized by sharp crackles during dust devils. These small, centimeter-scale discharges, caused by friction ...

Mars is a harsh, dusty world where fine, electrostatically charged particles shape both its landscape and the fate of robotic ...

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Mars had an Arctic-sized ocean, and scientists are only now beginning to see the outline of it. For a long time, the planet ...