Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off the world's surface ...

Time to dust off that win column, the Eagles have landed. Western Harnett's boys basketball team snapped a 58-game losing skid that dated back to Jan. 20, 2023 by defeating Red Springs 53-42 on Monday ...

Festivalgoers could hardly believe their eyes when a dust devil sent a tent airborne at a music festival in New South Wales. Gianni Menolotto, who was attending the Strawberry Fields Festival, told ...

In a stunning twist of fate, the very substance that kills robots on Mars also saves them. NASA engineers were amazed to discover their rovers were being mysteriously cleaned overnight. The culprit?

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On Mars, winds constantly stir up whirlwinds of fine dust. It was at the center of two of these dust devils that the SuperCam instrument's microphone, the first ever to operate on Mars, accidentally ...

When the wind blows on Mars, electricity crackles through the air. For the first time, scientists have detected electricity in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover ...

For years scientists have suspected that there is electrical activity on Mars. A study now confirms it: particles in the dusty Martian atmosphere rub against one another, building up electrical charge ...

Tokyo has lost its status as the world’s largest city, with another sprawling Asian metropolis, Indonesia's vast capital Jakarta, knocking it off the top spot. Dhaka, Bangladesh, follows close behind ...

Jakarta is now the world's largest city by population. The capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, is home to nearly 42 million, according to a new report from the United Nations, making it the most densely ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Scientists have detected what ...