Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dust devils on Mars could be crackling with electric currents, according to a new study — and scientists are a little concerned ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...

Martian dust devils are fleeting, but the footprints they leave behind can endure for months. Now, researchers have used those tracks to learn about the whirlwinds and potentially guide future mission ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

It confirms that although dust devils are found all over Mars, even on its towering volcanoes, lots are swept up from certain "source regions." For example, many were clustered in Amazonis Planitia ...

This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy.

The six-wheeled explorer recently captured several red planet mini-twisters spinning on the rim of Jezero Crater. A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in this short video made of ...