A 30-metre-high dust devil appeared in Manchester city centre, briefly halting traffic and stunning onlookers. Initially mistaken for a tornado, the Met Office confirmed it was a rare urban dust devil ...

Most don't cause damage, but larger dust devils can reach 60 mph or greater, the service says, which can be destructive.They don't usually last more than a few minutes.How do dust devils form?

Over the weekend, a colossal dust devil spun to life in the Texas heat, rapidly growing and hurling a towering column of dirt and debris into the air, much to the shock of nearby onlookers.

LOTS OF SUNSHINE TODAY. LIGHTER WINDS. AND THEN THIS HAPPENED IN TAMWORTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A DUST DEVIL WE JUST SHOWED YOU. DOESN’T HAPPEN TYPICALLY ON A GUSTY DAY LIKE WE HAD YESTERDAY.

But as any Grand Canyon State native knows, these aren't mini tornadoes. They're dust devils, an Arizona weather wonder. "Those can be pretty small," Isaac Smith, meteorologist with the National ...

WHITEWATER, Mont.– A dust devil that spun up at a track meet in Montana had people running for cover on Thursday. A video taken by Pierre D Bibbs showed a large dust devil picking up dirt and other ...

WHITEWATER, Mont.– A dust devil that spun up at a track meet in Montana had people running for cover on Thursday. A video taken by Pierre D Bibbs showed a large dust devil picking up dirt and ...

If it weren’t Arizona, one might think they were looking at a tornado. As a dust devil towered near Casa Grande, Arizona, on Easter Sunday, Amy Lujan captured a mesmerizing video. It showed the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a large dust devil (on the right) consuming a smaller, fainter twister (on the left in the foreground). NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / INTA-CSIC ...

(Artistic concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by ...

But one thing's for sure about these freakish alien dust devils: You're definitely not in Kansas if you see them. More like 140 million miles over the rainbow in space. Though scientists have long ...

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 ...