Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

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

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

Minnesota’s largest city was briefly colder than Mars last month. A late-November cold snap in Minneapolis sent temperatures ...

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

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

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

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

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...