The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A "phenomenal" view of lightning striking between clouds has been captured from space. The incredible sighting was shared in an Instagram video posted by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas ...

A team of researchers led by Penn State University has discovered the reaction that triggers electrical discharges, solving a puzzle that has haunted atmospheric physics for decades. Although the ...

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: ...

Tiny sparks inside Martian dust clouds have just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet’s weather.

Strokes of lightning flashing down towards the ground are a familiar sight during summer thunderstorms, but scientists have capture an image of a rare lightning bolt shooting out upwards from a cloud, ...

Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, ...