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

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

The mission will be the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has, for the first time, recorded evidence of lightning on Mars. Its microphone captured tiny “zaps ...

The discovery was made by analysing sounds from the atmosphere of the red planet obtained by the Perseverance rover.

Imagine the thrill of detecting lightning on another planet. Recently, scientists have achieved just that by capturing what they believe to be lightning on Mars, thanks to the Perseverance rover. This ...

The 321-foot (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending NASA's twin Mars orbiters on a drawn-out journey to the red planet. Liftoff was ...

Mars, long considered largely static, has revealed a dynamic interior in recent years. NASA’s InSight mission detected ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

On Mars, winds constantly stir up whirlwinds of fine dust. It was at the center of two of these dust devils that the SuperCam ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...