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

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

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

It’s hard to form rocks like these without a lot of water,” said Dr. Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist and member of NASA’s Perseverance rover team. That single observation sums up the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks in dust devils on the planet Mars. The crackles, which the rover ...

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.

The Perseverance Mars rover captures a super rare phenomenon for the first time caused by dust devils on the surface of the ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...

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 ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

NEW YORK -- On Thursday, NASA will launch rover Perseverance on its mission to Mars. Rebekah Sosland Siegfriedt shared her excitement on the mission as NASA's Systems Engineer for Testing Rover Before ...

“This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars’ surface." NASA's Perseverance rover just made ...