Dust devils form when the planet’s surface heats up, pushing hot air close to the ground rapidly up through cooler air above.

"Dust affects everything on Mars — from local weather to how well we can take images. It's difficult to overstate its ...

Scientists have watched dust devils whip across Mars for decades, using orbiters and rovers that land on the planet. But the ...

A European Mars probe witnessed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' Red Planet flyby on Oct. 3, snapping imagery of the ...

Terraforming is the theoretical process of transforming a planet or moon to make it habitable for humans and other Earth-like ...

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's ...

Combing through 20 years of images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Whirling dust devils and winds on Mars can move at an unexpected 99 miles per hour. The dust they send into the atmosphere ...

Scientists combined 20 years of Mars images to track over 1,000 dust devils, revealing powerful winds that shape the Red ...

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 Mars, providing a ...

Dust devils on Mars have been known for years. Using them as a proxy for wind speed, however, is a clever twist. The new ...