There are many different ways to get to Mars, but there are always tradeoffs. Chemical propulsion, proven the most popular, can quickly get a spacecraft to the red planet. But they come at a high cost ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's Perseverance rover and coming from dust-storm fronts and whirling dust devils.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes ...

For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than crackling electricity. The first confirmed detection of tiny lightning-like ...

(WJW) – NASA is reporting new discoveries from Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured video and audio of electrical discharges and tiny sonic booms inside dust devils swirling on the surface of ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...