Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

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

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...