Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were whispering with electricity right under your feet. For the first time, ...

For decades, researchers have suspected that lightning lights up the sky on Mars. Now, they may have captured at least the ...

Lightning discharges represent one of nature’s most dramatic electrical phenomena, providing a dynamic window into the complex interplay between atmospheric electrical fields and discharge processes.

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

Scientists have successfully detected lightning on Mars for the first time by capturing the crackling sounds of electrical ...

The researchers examined 28 hours of audio recordings, documenting 55 episodes of what they consider to be “mini lightning” ...

It is thought that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals. Yet the exact ...