Newly published observations from space are showing researchers more about the nature of Earth's lightning storms, including whimsically named phenomena such as "blue jets" and "elves." ...

An experiment was done with lightning that simulated life on early Earth. Haihui Joy Jiang To test this, the team created an experiment with the fourth state of matter, plasma, to explore how ...

Scientists saw that lightning on Jupiter can be as frequent as it is on Earth. In the data from Juno’s first eight passes by the planet, the spacecraft’s Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR ...