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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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, ...