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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Martian dust creates frictional electricity that can change the planet's chemical composition.

What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on Earth. As we venture through the universe, scientists are finding uncanny — ...

It’s an exciting time for space travel, since both NASA and SpaceX are aiming to have humans setting foot on Mars in the 2030s. This will be no mean feat, since the conditions on Mars are not to be ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...