Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

But moonbows are much more rare than rainbows—the natural phenomenon happens only when the moon is very low, the sky is dark, and rain is falling opposite the moon. Check out the biggest unsolved ...

The Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to confirm Jay Bhattacharya as the next director of the National Institutes of Health. The vote was 53-47.

Mount Spurr has shown increasing signs of activity. These are now at a level where an eruption is plausible. Nothing is ever guaranteed with Alaskan volcanoes: they can always ...

we plan to enhance the accuracy of our lightning prediction model by integrating more data sources related to lightning formation, and further optimizing the model framework. This will better support ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and ... Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A deep learning-based model has been developed to improve lightning risk prediction for power grids. Utilizing wide-area lightning monitoring data and ...