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

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical discharges occur as ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

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

For decades, many believed Mars was a dead world with no air. But that’s wrong. This is the real story of the Red Planet's ghostly atmosphere, revealed for the first time by groundbreaking missions ...

Mars has long been framed as a cold, dry desert, but new research is revealing a planet laced with hidden ice and glacial ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...