University of Warwick astronomers, in partnership with institutions in Spain, are showing how astronomy tools, that are ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...

Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, ...

For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring events in the universe. It marks the violent death of a star, and ...

Some of Earth's largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with ...