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 ...

Tiny sparks inside Martian dust clouds have just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet’s weather.

NASA's Perseverance rover has unveiled a captivating phenomenon: tiny electrical sparks, likened to 'mini-lightning', ...

What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes ...

BEIJING -- A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on ...

Dust devils on Mars generate tiny electrical sparks. This could help explain how the Red Planet’s atmosphere and surface are ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...

Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical discharges occur as ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...