Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

A quiet night in the Himalayas turned into something magical. High above Tibet, rare red flashes lit up the sky. These were ...

Astronomers say that for many people, it will be a “once-in-a-lifetime” cosmic event. A star in the T Corona Borealis (T CrB) ...

Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

They look like glowing red jellyfish in the sky. Now, imagine seeing these rare lights over the tallest mountains on ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...

The photo, titled Cosmic Fireworks, won the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, scientists from Los Alamos National ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Cosmic-ray showers, consisting of high-energy particles from space, appear to play a significant role in triggering lightning flashes. Observations using a 3D ...