Japanese researchers captured rare gamma-ray flash from lightning collision using advanced multi-sensor detection system.

Eventually, the charges equalize in a bolt of lightning. It usually stays inside the cloud, or hops from cloud to cloud. But the bolts that most interest people are the ones that shoot down to the ...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain has delivered an extraordinary visual reminder of nature’s raw power from an uncommon vantage point ... is what lightning looks like from the top down,” she ...

Thunderstorms are known to generate gamma rays, the highest energy radiation on Earth. But pinning the burst to a specific bolt is new.

Current methods of tracking space junk in Earth's orbit only follow objects ... promise for tracking the smallest bits of space litter, down to about the size of a piece of pencil lead — and ...

The upside-down lightning bolts are capable of reaching upwards of more than 50 miles above Earth’s surface. That means these bolts often touch the bottom of the ionosphere, releasing their ...

The inception of life on Earth may have been the result of chemical reactions sparked by lightning strikes, a new study from Harvard suggests. “The origin of life is one of the great unanswered ...

The author is southwest tech engineer for Wheatstone Corp. Hardly a week goes by that the Wheatstone Tech Support department doesn’t get at least one call from a customer who is having equipment ...

Thunderstorm outbreaks with lightning strike mapping. Fast detection of wildfires and spreading smoke to issue air quality alerts. In short, a quick scan of the entire Earth's weather every 10 ...