These sparks happen from accumulation of static electric charge—often arising from two different materials rubbing together.

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

Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the moon during the Artemis IV ...

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are ...

Adrian Broz, a research associate at Purdue, published findings in his scientific journal after NASA discovered a collection ...

NASA will award the University of Colorado Boulder $24.8 million to build two space instruments that the agency has selected ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through ...

For the first time ever, the Perseverance Mars rover recorded electrical discharges and mini-sonic booms coming from dust ...