On a stormy day, engineers at Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) launched a small aircraft into the ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ... Luminous Events (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around six seconds ...

Massachusetts could see another round of weekend rain, with a chance for some parts of the state to see lightning amid this ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

People have reported strange flashes above thunderstorms for hundreds ... In fact, they are triggered by cloud-to-ground lightning strikes from large thunderstorm systems, which physically move ...

But by the time the 15-person team rendezvoused Monday afternoon at Camp Muir, a cluster of stone huts and outhouses two miles above sea level ... I shivered and cringed as lightning flashed through ...

These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to as "sprites." Pettit was able to view the sprites from directly above, looking down at what is known ...