A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that lightning on Earth can knock high-energy electrons out of the inner radiation belt, ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Two fires were burning in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Monday night near the Kennedy Space Center. As of ...

The International Space Station has captured a photo of what in known as "Earth's tallest lightning". This form of lighting, known as a gigantic jet, is a type of discharge that occurs between ...

Thunderstorms can be beautiful to admire from a distance –just ask the ISS astronauts who take incredible photos of lightning from space– but up close and personal, they're frightening.

Showers of charged particles from space can spark intense lightning. There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Cosmic-ray showers, consisting of high-energy particles from space, appear to play a significant role in triggering lightning flashes. Observations using a 3D ...

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...

For decades, ship emissions steadily rose as increasing global trade drove higher ship traffic. Then, in 2020, new ...