We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this ...

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Lightning is a spectacular natural phenomenon that has fascinated humans for centuries. However, not all lightning is the ...

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

They look like glowing red jellyfish in the sky. Now, imagine seeing these rare lights over the tallest mountains on ...

ISRO achieves a milestone in lightning forecasting over India using geostationary satellites, enhancing prediction accuracy ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...