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

After only one year in space, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station has given researchers a new understanding of how lightning is created, and how ...

Lightning can shoot upwards from tall towers – and researchers now know that it produces X-rays at the very beginning of its ascent into the clouds. During a thunderstorm, different parts of a cloud ...

Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April 2025. Photograph by Paul Smith Our atmosphere is like one big electrical ...

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 ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red ...

It's safe to say that most of us have seen lightning here on Earth plenty of times – some of us have even been struck by it. But the natural phenomenon is one all but a few select individuals will ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's ...