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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, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel upwards into the atmosphere, as opposed to normal lightning which travels downward to the surface of Earth. — Eerie ...

SpaceX has yet to confirm, but the Federal Aviation Administration shows a launch window for the Starlink 6-72 mission ...

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and ...

Nitrates are natural fertilizers. As the rain comes down in a thunderstorm, it carries those nitrates down to the ground. This fertilizes the grass, and it allows things to green up a little bit more.

The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this ...

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

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 ...

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 ...