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 ...

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn State-led study reveals the hidden chain reaction that starts lightning, linking electrons, X-rays, and gamma rays. (CREDIT ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that ...

Bright purple flashes of lightning can look striking from above the clouds. Astronaut Don Pettit has shared a view of the purple lightning flashing through clouds from the International Space Station.

Combining Europe's new geostationary lightning imager with a dense ground-based mapping array, researchers show that longer, ...