Artist's concept of lightning strikes in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, with the blackness of space in the background. Lightning crackles to life and evolves on Jupiter the same way as it does on ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - Hidden below the brownish ammonia clouds blanketing Jupiter are clouds that like on Earth are made of water. And like on Earth, lightning often is generated within these ...

Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space After Explorer 1 launched, though, they noticed that their instrument was detecting significantly higher levels of radiation than expected.

BOULDER, Colo. — Lightning doesn’t just strike downward; sometimes its effects reach thousands of kilometers into space. In a ...

Life as we know it may require lightning, as it's one of the few energy sources a planet has available to create complex chemical compounds. Now, new research has found that lightning, while not very ...