NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

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

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

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

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

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

NASA is quietly laying the groundwork for a future in which orbiting platforms can build, repair, and even run themselves ...

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...

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 ...

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