Analysis of four years of acoustic recordings made by NASA's rover has allowed scientists to identify 55 episodes of ...

Mars is about to join a currently exclusive planetary club. Until today, the only worlds known to have lightning were Earth, ...

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

The presence of electrical activity has implications for surface chemistry, future human exploration and habitability on the ...

Recently, the rover has discovered that Mars' atmosphere is electrically active, because it found electrical discharges. The ...

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Now that we've got our first good look at it, let's put the mega storm on top of the sixth rock from the sun into some perspective: According to NASA, ...

Imagine a Slushee TM composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed “mushballs,” raining down like hailstones during a ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary, ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...