For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Lightning, when coupled with solar flares, can knock electrons flying above the Earth out of place. AP Photo/David Zalubowski There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space After Explorer 1 launched, though, they noticed that their instrument was detecting significantly higher levels of radiation than expected.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that volcanic lightning on an early Earth played a crucial role in kickstarting life on the planet by breaking molecules into useful, biological components. A ...

The scientific community has been electrified by this new theory. The inception of life on Earth may have been the result of chemical reactions sparked by lightning strikes, a new study from Harvard ...

The energy needed for thunderstorms could come from an avalanche of electrons seeded by extraterrestrial cosmic rays, a new study claims. Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical ...

Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms. Yet, there is lightning and thunder on Mars – although not with ...

A rare and extraordinary event has been captured by researchers in Japan, revealing that lightning on Earth can produce gamma-ray bursts—high-energy emissions typically observed from cosmic phenomena ...

Two striking photos captured by astronauts on board the ISS show the eye of the tropical cyclone Bansi as it was illuminated by lightning — twice in just a couple of minutes. Bansi first reached named ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For decades, Florida has carried the title of the lightning capital of the United States. But a new ...