Lightning, when coupled with solar flares, can knock electrons flying above the Earth out of place. AP Photo/David Zalubowski There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

The scientific community has been electrified by this new theory. The inception of life on Earth may have been the result of chemical reactions sparked by lightning strikes, a new study from Harvard ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive storms, revealing a hidden electrical world few ever witness from Earth.

For decades, scientists have theorized that volcanic lightning on an early Earth played a crucial role in kickstarting life on the planet by breaking molecules into useful, biological components. A ...

Two striking photos captured by astronauts on board the ISS show the eye of the tropical cyclone Bansi as it was illuminated by lightning — twice in just a couple of minutes. Bansi first reached named ...

In May 2025, astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain posted photos on X of lightning roiling far, far beneath them. The photos were captured at speeds of 120 frames per second, with the depicted ...

In Britain, lightning causes an average of two deaths a year; in South Africa, it can be well over 200. Near Pretoria over ...

If you're one who is a big fan of thunderstorms you can now skip that planned trip to the African Congo and head to Venezuela instead. NASA just announced earlier this month that based on new ...