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

One of the clean rooms where scientists discovered T. phoenicis for the first time was during preparations for NASA’s Phoenix ...

After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as it ...

Space agencies are now focusing on menstrual care for astronauts. Longer missions to the Moon and Mars require sustainable ...

Landing on Mars is a nightmare — the air is too thin for parachutes alone, the ground is a field of jagged rocks, and the ...

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the moon during the Artemis IV ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

The team had to endure temperatures that reached a maximum of around 113 degrees Fahrenheit, with only a small pop-up tent to shield them from the intense sun and heat. While NASA has used Death ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electric sparks in dust devils and storms on Mars, with the US-based space agency ...