In 2024, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick caught a glimpse at one of the most elusive atmospheric phenomena known as red sprites. These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel ...

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...

SpaceX has yet to confirm, but the Federal Aviation Administration shows a launch window for the Starlink 6-72 mission occurring sometime between 10:40 p.m. Saturday night and 3:11 a.m. Sunday morning ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Miller and Urey proposed that life got its jump-start from lightning striking Earth's primordial ocean around 4 billion years ago. But their hypothesis has been a lightning rod for criticism ...

Lightning doesn’t just strike downward; sometimes its effects reach thousands of kilometers into space. In a discovery that connects the weather we experience on Earth with the physics of our ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning on Earth, a new study suggests. | Credit: Jan Drahokoupil / 500px / Getty Images Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long ...