On a hot sunny day, you may spot vortexes of blowing dust spiraling upward and throwing debris everywhere. But as any Grand Canyon State native knows, these aren't mini tornadoes. They're dust devils, ...
Mars has always captured the imagination of space explorers, and now new findings are showing that the Red Planet’s dust devils might be even more dangerous than we thought. These familiar whirlwinds ...
Many videos have gone viral across the internet, showing dust devils spinning up out of nowhere and causing havoc to nearby people and property. One such video was submitted to KWTX out of Nolanville, ...
This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It’s dusty. It’s windy.
NASA's Perseverance rover may have recorded evidence of a triboelectric discharge caused by a dust devil on Mars, according to a team who presented those findings at the 2025 Lunar and Planetary ...
What causes dust devils & why are scientists studying them to prepare for future exploration on Mars Physics Prof Brian Jackson and a team of planetary scientists are digging into the science of ...