WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of ...

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, ...

Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...

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, ...

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 CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Are there thunderstorms on Mars? – Cade, age 7, ...

Map showing active dust devils during local spring and summer in Mars’s northern and southern hemispheres. The coloured dots indicate 1039 dust devils for which we have only location information, and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured unexpected footage of one dust devil consuming another during an imaging experiment. While exploring the Witch Hazel Hill area of the Jezero Crater, the ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – There may not have been a cloud in the sky Thursday, but that doesn’t stop dust devils from forming. Accord to the National Weather Service, a dust devil is, “a small, ...