A megaflash lightning strike is an unusually long lightning bolt that stretches at least 62 miles. These aren’t your typical ...

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

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

We have heard the saying: 'April showers brings May flowers.' This proverb leaves out the critical role of lightning.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lightning flashes over the Mediterranean Sea (AFP via Getty) For nearly two billion years after it formed, the Earth contained a swirl of chemicals, but organic molecules needed for making ...