An international team of scientists, led by Olaf Scholten, professor of astrophysics at the University of Groningen, has ...

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

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

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

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