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, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spots a large dust devil on Mars swallowing another smaller dust devil in images recorded on Jan. 25, 2025. Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939's ...

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, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of a Martian dust devil consuming a smaller one on the surface of the red planet. Dust devils are "swirling, sometimes towering columns of air and dust," NASA ...

A rare and mesmerizing sight whipped through a Virginia neighborhood this week. A dust devil kicked up leaves, dirt and plenty of curiosity. The mini-tornado-looking swirl was spotted in Middletown, ...

An Iowa man captured video this week of a large dust devil that whipped up in the middle of Gowrie. KCCI Chief Meteorologist Jason Sydejko called the dust devil "incredibly defined," as it spun for ...

The Navcam scene (the average background image, top panel) and each dust devil image processed to dust amount (five lower panels), masking out only the truly indeterminate areas (grey). The colour ...

Saturday afternoon, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. out of Tennessee posted a wild video of a dust devil to its Facebook page. No, the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Tunes has no role in this. Sorry for the ...