A surprising discovery has just been made by NASA’s Perseverance rover: electrical discharges, possibly lightning, have been ...

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

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

Curiosity's view of the Martian landscape on May 12, 2025. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Curiosity Rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini ...

What can dust devils on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s weather and climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

A pair of small satellites began their 2 year journey to Mars to study the red planet's magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped the atmosphere there over millions of years ...

The Curiosity rover is making incredible discoveries on Mars. In this episode of "Weather or Not with Lee Goldberg," Abigail Fraeman, the Curiosity rover's deputy project scientist, discusses new ...

When NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, arrives at the Red Planet next month, it will help pave the way for the humans that might one day follow. In addition to looking for signs of current and past ...

Communications with Mars explorers face unique challenges, including 4–24 minute signal delays and limited bandwidth that restricts data transmission. While NASA's Deep Space Network currently manages ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...