Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded sounds from Mars dust devils and revealed tiny electric sparks shaping the planet’s ...

For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than ...

Artist's rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere. Mars' atmosphere, once as thick as if not thicker than Earth's today, is leaking into space. "We ...

Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

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

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

With one of NASA's most data-rich Martian orbiters of the 21st century in distress, now is as good a time as ever to remember what's at stake if MAVEN is lost.

As of December 4, 2023, MAVEN has not communicated with mission control, prompting NASA to issue an update on its status. The analysis of tracking data suggests that the spacecraft is rotating ...

NASA engineers are working to restore communication with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after the spacecraft went silent in December ...

It's not entirely clear how neighboring planet Mars went from a presumably life-supporting planet to a place as dead as all others in the solar system. We do know, however, that whatever water and ...