Newly published research shows how lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight after the regulations went ...

Shao and the team wanted to answer a question that has perplexed scientists — how lightning starts during a thunderstorm.

Learn more about how these experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary ...

Researchers from Stanford University believe their new theory debunks the idea that a massive lightning strike in our ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

A mesmerizing new visualization of ocean currents from NASA has been compared to the Starry Night painting of Van Gogh.