What appeared to be a swirling tornado over Victorville on Saturday was actually hundreds of congregating California gulls. Over the years, migrating gulls in the High Desert have selected large ...

A large mass of flying seagulls in Victorville was described by residents as resembling a "tornado" or "dust devil". The gulls are migrating through the High Desert and temporarily nesting in large, ...

There’s an electrifying new development in Mars science. NASA’s Perseverance rover has just captured proof of a weather phenomenon that was long suspected, but until now, never observed: electric ...

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...

A group of daring schoolchildren in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, showed no fear on October 18: despite a towering dust devil, the youngsters were completely unfazed and were instead seen laughing ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — A 5 On Your Side viewer caught a giant dust devil on video as it spun through a north St. Louis County work site on Thursday. The small twister whipped dust and rock hundreds of feet ...

Mars may look calm, but new research reveals it’s a world of fierce winds and swirling dust devils racing at hurricane-like speeds. Using deep learning on thousands of satellite images from European ...

What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the ...