Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks in dust devils on the planet Mars. The crackles, which the rover ...

Footage of NASA's Perseverance rover capturing a dust devil on Mars traveling at 12 miles per hour (17 kph) Credit: Space.com ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

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

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

For years scientists have suspected that there is electrical activity on Mars. A study now confirms it: particles in the dusty Martian atmosphere rub against one another, building up electrical charge ...

Dr Shiva Khoshtinat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta' at Politecnico di Milano. With an interdisciplinary background ...

On Mars, gritty winds constantly whip up spinning columns of dust. Twice now, NASA’s Perseverance rover has rolled straight through the heart of these “dust devils” while its SuperCam microphone was ...