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 ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

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, ...

So, Mars does have storms, but they’re far drier and dustier than the thunderstorms on Earth. Scientists are continually ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.