The jet appeared near the centre of a striking image. Below, Earth’s thin atmosphere glowed faint green. City lights peeked through the cloud cover.

Live updates from Tuesday night’s weather-scrubbed SpaceX Nusantara Lima satellite launch attempt from Cape Canaveral Space ...

In a stunning display, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a lightning storm illuminating the skies above Singapore. The image, taken during the station's orbit ...

What we witness as a lightning storm can mean something very different from space. Recently, an astronaut in the ISS was able to capture the moment from above.

Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that stretched from Texas to Missouri. It sets a new world record, besting the ...

Live updates from Monday night’s scrubbed SpaceX Nusantara Lima mission from rainy Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

The energy needed for thunderstorms could come from an avalanche of electrons seeded by extraterrestrial cosmic rays, a new study claims. Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical ...

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The ...