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

These cosmic rays produce secondary, high-energy electrons and positrons in the atmosphere that further ionized the air and created pathways in thunderclouds, allowing lightning to follow and ...

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

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...