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 ...

Normally when people think of gamma rays -- bursts of an incredibly high-energy form of light -- they are coming from out of this world, such as solar flares, exploding stars or black holes.

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

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 ...