In June, one of these dust events rapidly engulfed the planet. Scientists first observed a smaller-scale dust storm on May 30. By June 20, it had gone global. For the Opportunity rover, that meant a ...

Every so often, Mars experiences a dust storm that spans the entire planet — a global dust storm, one that may contribute to the loss of gas from the Red Planet's atmosphere. The possibility was ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Mars during a global dust storm in 2018. Mars is capable of churning out some gnarly dust storms. Sometimes, these storms go global, turning the red ...

Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable — which would be a boon for future astronauts there — if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those in the past. A published ...

Researchers have recently uncovered that dust plays a critical role in regulating the global carbon cycle and climate change, advancing understanding of Earth's ecosystem and providing new insights ...

Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth. When dust particles rub against each other, as they do in Martian dust storms, they ...

The prospect of a colossal dust storm taking over our planetary neighbor in 2018 has some researchers excited. Mars hasn’t had a global dust storm since 2007, and while scientists were able to observe ...

Desert storms that have sent massive plumes of dust across the oceans may have a small but significant effect on global temperatures, scientists say. New research found the microscopic particles ...