It is what is known as a "dust devil", or willy willy. Traffic was even brought to a halt before it enveloped a tree by the carriageway, as onlookers were confused by the sight of it. Violinist ...

EVERETT — Although the Everett AquaSox outhit the Tri-City Dust Devils on Thursday night, Everett fell 7-3 at Funko Field. Tri-City scored three times in the top of the second inning on its way ...

A large, whirling dust devil caught one Iowa man's attention Wednesday. Matt Woods was driving down a gravel road in Boone County when he spotted the dirt-filled funnel whipping across a farm field.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover filmed a small dust devil (forward left) catch up to a larger devil (right) and combine into a single twister on Jan. 25. The robot was positioned around half a mile away ...

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 ...