NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within swirling mini-twisters on Mars.

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.

A strange rock standing alone in the dusty expanse of Jezero Crater on Mars has captured the attention of planetary scientists. NASA’s Perseverance rover, after five years of exploring the Red Planet,

NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are being shaped in some of the harshest deserts on Earth. The next generation of flying robots is being tuned to handle thin air,

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab experiments shaking sand around in a low-pressure carbon dioxide atmosphere, like that of Mars, have recorded highly charged dust and discharges.

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape,