When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In a rare occurrence, HiRISE captured an image of a live dust devil as it etched its track into ...

Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red planet. Wind on the barren planet would be invisible if it weren’t for Mars’ iconic red dust, ...

Dust devil ' is a type of gust of wind that occurs when the atmosphere near the surface of the earth rises in a spiral shape due to updrafts, and is known to occur not only on Earth but also on ...

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.