From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily ...

These sparks happen from accumulation of static electric charge—often arising from two different materials rubbing together.

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

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...

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

Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...

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A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

The latest selfie by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil. Resembling a small pale puff, the twirling dust devil popped up 3 miles behind the rover ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of the sky in the hours just before dawn on March 1, 2025. In the hours just before dawn, NASA's Perseverance rover adjusted its gaze toward the heavens and ...

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...