Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover took its fifth selfie on May 10, 2025. A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four ...

One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on the planet's surface. While scientists have long theorized ...

Did you know? Sound from another planet, the wind on Mars, has been recorded and made audible with the help of headphones and ...

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his team report what they believe to be the first evidence ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...

NASA has long been interested in Mars as it represents one of the few places in our solar system where life could have existed. But that doesn't mean we can just travel there and be ok. The planet has ...

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Researchers believe Perseverance recorded 55 instances of "mini lightning," providing the first sound evidence of Martian electrical activity. The lightning occurs during dust storms and dust devils, ...

The study presents the first in-situ evidence of electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere, identifying 55 distinct triboelectric discharge events. These electrical discharges, unlike terrestrial ...