Mars took a direct hit from a powerful solar storm. The eruption from the Sun was one of the strongest recorded in more than two decades. The same storm struck Earth and triggered bright auroras that ...

Mars is constantly swept by swirling columns of wind known as dust devils, and these powerful whirlwinds sometimes act as ...

Venus’ surface has long been hidden beneath thick clouds and sparse data, but new research is beginning to illuminate what ...

Mars just gave scientists a sound they have chased for decades. Not a photo. Not a rock sample. A signal. Researchers have confirmed the first Mars lightning whistler detection. It came from NASA’s ...

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

Anyway, Marquette gave up a 21-1 run to end the first half and trail DePaul 32-14 at intermission before losing 62-51. Up Next: A road trip to Providence on Wednesday night, where nothing weird has or ...

A 6.5-foot Mars sand ridge called Hazyview reveals how strong, steady winds once shaped the planet’s surface and soil ...

Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit.

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

The single whistler event was recorded over a crustal magnetic field, at an altitude of 349 kilometers (217 miles) on the ...

The real reason is less dramatic and more fascinating: Mars looks red mainly because iron-rich dust and rock oxidized over time, while the myth people still get wrong is the name, because Mars is ...