Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab experiments shaking sand around in a low-pressure carbon dioxide atmosphere, like ...

Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electric sparks in dust devils and storms on Mars, with the US-based space agency ...

Dust storms are nothing new to Arizona, a state that sees the massive walls of dust roll in every year. In the past month, the Phoenix area saw two major storms, causing flight cancellations, damaged ...

Storms at Burning Man, which began on Sunday, are damaging camps and vehicles. Severe winds and rain caused traffic disruptions and the closure of Black Rock City airport. While the worst of it was ...

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. A massive wall of dust — called a haboob — hit the ...

For anyone wondering whether intense dust storms, such as the haboob that enveloped Phoenix this week, are possible in Southern California, the answer is yes. They’ve hit in the recent past and are a ...