A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

It's bad news for Kern County residents who were hoping to pop in for a day at the Lightning in a Bottle festival at Buena Vista Aquatic Recreational Area. In a departure from its recent ticket policy ...

The Space Needle is a 605-foot observation tower that defines the skyline of Seattle and serves as a symbol of the city. “It’s really an icon,” says Rick Chesmore, a cofounder of Chesmore ...

NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change how we understand the dynamics of exoplanetary systems. The system, consisting of a faint star and a planet, is believed to be ...

Australian researchers have joined forces with NASA to combat bushfires sparked by lightning across the country. Lightning sparks hundreds of bushfires each year in Western Australia, according to ...

can actually generate electromagnetic waves known as lightning-generated whistlers. These waves can then travel through the atmosphere out into space, where they interact with electrons in the inner ...

A bizarre square object has been spotted on the surface of Mars, and now SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to take action to investigate it. For many years now, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk has made it clear ...

Specifically, only lightning that occurred right after so-called geomagnetic storms resulted in the bursts of electrons we detected. Geomagnetic storms are disturbances in the near-Earth space ...

and their discovery was one of the first of the space age. A new study from my research team has found that electromagnetic waves generated by lightning can trigger these electron showers. At the ...