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

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: ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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

We had a widespread round of severe thunderstorms yesterday. A network of instruments was actually able to count all of the lightning strikes over Michigan. Fortunately we all didn’t get into the ...