On a cold, thin-aired world where sound barely carries, a NASA rover has picked up something that should not be possible: the ...

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

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National ...

The researchers examined 28 hours of audio recordings, documenting 55 episodes of what they consider to be “mini lightning” ...

Imagine the thrill of detecting lightning on another planet. Recently, scientists have achieved just that by capturing what they believe to be lightning on Mars, thanks to the Perseverance rover. This ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA's Perseverance rover has captured the sounds of lightning on Mars for the very first time. This significant discovery, detailed in a recent study published in ...

Scientists have caught Mars's atmosphere crackling with static, uncovering evidence of miniature lightning in its dust storms.

If you were up late Tuesday night, chances are you caught that “chaotic” storm that lit up the San Luis Obispo County sky with thunder and lightning for most of the night. According to the National ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...