Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

In a nutshell Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external ...

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

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

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Rocket Lab will launch a private radar imaging satellite to orbit tonight (March 14), and you can watch the action live ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

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

T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 ...

However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the event on the Gateway to Astronaut photography of Earth website and shared ...

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