Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have captured astonishing images of strange lightning storms happening far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare gigantic jet near the U.S.-Mexico border from the International Space Station on July ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a stunning display, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a lightning storm illuminating ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

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 usually strikes downward, connecting storm clouds to the ground. But sometimes, in rare and spectacular cases, it does the opposite. Instead of hitting Earth, it shoots upward, bursting into ...

“We explained how photoelectric events occur, what conditions need to be in thunderclouds to initiate the cascade of electrons, and what is causing the wide variety of radio signals that we observe in ...

In a stunning display, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a lightning storm illuminating the skies above Singapore. The image, taken during the station's orbit ...