A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even ...

An accidental discovery involving laser beams and particles suspended in light may unravel the mysterious nature of lightning strikes.

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes. While famous inventor and U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin discovered the connection between ...

A new study finally uncovers what powers Venus's super-fast winds. Scientists found that a daily thermal tide—created by the ...

In the century or so since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies in the universe, our understanding of our home galaxy has grown in leaps and bounds. But as ...