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

Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both ...

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

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

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 ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static ...

A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet ...

A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four years has been recording audio of Mars. In this alien world 156 million miles away in space, even the everyday whispers of wind and ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...

Boffins say that the chance discovery opens up a 'completely new field of investigation' on the Red Planet after recording ...

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...