Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

Tiny ‘microlightning’ flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth - Study says tiny electric discharges ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second, on average. Despite this, physicists have long been unsure exactly how most flashes get started. It is well-established that lightning ...

Learn more about a massive show of red sprites in South Asia — an outburst that included over 100 individual flashes of red ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a common idiom to mean that unusual events don’t happen to the same person ...

Incredibly frequent lightning flashes from the thunderstorms that caused devastation in the Lower Mississippi Valley on March 15, were captured from space, imagery released by the National Oceanic and ...

However, critics pointed out that lightning flashes were too infrequent and the oceans too large and dispersed for this scenario. Now, Dr Zare and his team have an alternate hypothesis that doesn ...