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 ...

Tiny tornadoes of dust whirl across Mars's rusty plains far faster than scientists thought, a new study reveals. The results could help scientists plan future Mars missions by accounting for the ...

And with these 'dust devils' collected into a single public catalog, this research is just the beginning. Besides pure science, it will be useful for planning future missions, for example, ...

A swirling dust devil brought traffic to a standstill in Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, as motorists watched it whip across a motorway. Video shows the vortex spinning over the road before drifting ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

For two decades, images from European spacecraft have captured bits of unremarkable digital noise as they photograph Mars. Now, scientists have turned that noise into a breakthrough, cataloging 1,039 ...