There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

Witness the beauty and science behind Earth's rarest light shows. Join us as we delve into transient luminous events and uncover the secrets they hold about our atmosphere's hidden dynamics.

Thursday’s topic is “Lightning Safety.” As meteorologists, this is the weather phenomenon we probably know the least about on ...

On Earth, they come from lightning, nuclear explosions and radioactive decay. In space, they’re thought to originate from a star exploding as a supernova or from two dense neutron stars—the ...

It's a stunning location, but also home to a unique meteorological phenomenon and a storm chaser's dream - the Catatumbo lightning. With most experts estimating that lightning strikes occur ...

At any moment, there are as many as 1,800 thunderstorms in progress somewhere on earth and each is producing deadly lightning. Lightning detection systems in the U.S. see an average of 25 million ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Lightning strikes are some of the most awesome demonstrations of power on Earth. We’ve all seen trees, mountains, and skyscrapers struck. But if a car is struck by lightning, then what happens?

I’m talking about fulgurites, which can form whenever lightning discharges into the Earth. It’s likely that even if you’ve seen a fulgurite, you likely had no idea what it was. So what are ...

Last year, AEM’s Earth Networks Total Lightning Network® detected over 459 million lightning pulses within 80 million lightning flashes across the U.S., a 17.7% decrease from 2023. The report ...