Mars may look calm, but its atmosphere harbors storms of staggering scale. Roughly every 5½ Earth years, the planet ...

A navigation camera onboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover observed a dust devil on the Red Planet. NASA footage shows one ...

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming ...

Warm spells on Mars may spark massive dust storms, scientists say, bringing us closer to predicting Martian weather. Today’s ...

Mars might be a thrilling destination, but its dust could be deadly. A team of scientists warns that long-term exposure to Martian dust could harm future astronauts’ lungs, thyroids, and more. Packed ...

NASA has revealed a 328-foot-wide hole on Mars, potentially a gateway to subterranean caves that could harbor alien life.

Nearly half of Mars dust consists of silica, which on Earth is known to cause silicosis, an incurable lung disease that progressively scars lung tissue. The Martian silica particles measure about 3 ...

In the rover's latest video, the life of the slighter dust devil is abruptly cut short by a superior twister. But one ...

A NASA rover recently spotted a rare phenomenon of a dust devil consuming a smaller one on Mars. The footage was captured by ...

Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

The dust devil was about 210 feet wide, NASA said, but likely didn't last long after consuming the smaller whirlwind.