Japanese researchers captured rare gamma-ray flash from lightning collision using advanced multi-sensor detection system.

A rare and extraordinary event has been captured by researchers in Japan, revealing that lightning on Earth can produce gamma ...

The likely distribution of electric charge of a cumulonimbus cloud has been drawn onto ... setting off the lightning discharge. That "something else" appears to originate from space.

If you can hear thunder — even from a very distant storm — it’s still possible to be struck by positive lightning. Negative lightning, on the other hand, originates from the lower-level ...

To solve the long-standing puzzle, Shao and his colleagues used an array of radio antennas to record the precise progression of lightning discharges in space ... instead of a negative one.” ...

“Amazing how much lightning can strike our planet in a short time,” said Peake, who works for the European Space Agency ... and the lower portion is negative, forming an electric field ...

Scientists recorded a 'gigantic jet" lightning ... is shooting into space in the first place. The researchers speculate the thunderclouds could be relieving a buildup of negative charge by ...

While most lightning discharges electricity between clouds, or between clouds and the ground, gigantic jets see massive discharges from the tops of clouds up to space. “They propagate all the ...