NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded lightning and thunder on Mars for the first time, revealing the Red Planet’s ...

Red Planet Day 2025 marks 61 years of Mariner 4’s historic Mars flyby, celebrating key milestones, discoveries and the future of humanity’s ambitious exploration of Mars.

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 ...

Mars has long looked like a dead world, but Curiosity’s decade of fieldwork has steadily revealed a planet that once offered ...

Perseverance rover detects faint electrical discharges on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's dust-filled atmosphere.

Scientists analyzed 28 hours of recordings over two Martian years, listening for electrical signals. Dust devils on Mars ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and ...