The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, ...

Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit.

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island of Koh ...

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even more interesting – a way to study what might be the initial spark of ...

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