Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day.

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

Listen as a dust devil sweeps past the Perseverance rover, producing tiny pops of thunder as it generates sparks of static electricity in the dry Martian air.

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured groundbreaking video and audio of electrical discharges and miniature sonic booms within ...

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

This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on ...

The Perseverance Mars rover captures a super rare phenomenon for the first time caused by dust devils on the surface of the ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...