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

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

Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both ...

A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet ...

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National ...

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 ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that tiny bursts of electricity are happening in the atmosphere of Mars. These ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Until recently, Mars was studied only through telescopes and some data that was recorded from early spacecraft. It was thought that Mars' polar regions were the only significant reservoirs of ice, ...