The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: ...

Small, frequent lightning storms zip across Jupiter’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted the flashes for the first time, scientists report August 5 in Nature. “It’s a very exotic thing that ...

Lightning is fascinating to watch but also extremely dangerous. In the United States, there are about 25 million lightning flashes every year. Each of those 25 million flashes is a potential killer.

We have published several articles explaining that close encounters between jets and lightning occur every now and then around the globe, usually causing little to no damage at all to the planes.

Zeus’s weapon has been cracked. Researchers say they have finally worked out how lightning forms, how it escapes the storm cloud that fosters it – and whether it will form a “bolt from the blue”. The ...

In a first-of-its-kind observation, researchers have documented a unique event that occurs in clouds before a lightning flash happens. Their observation, called 'fast negative breakdown,' documents a ...

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Scientists used data from NASA's Perseverance rover to find tiny lightning bolts on Mars that could scour biosignatures off ...