For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Thunder isn’t just loud noise. Its pitch, rumble, and duration are shaped by the exact path lightning takes through the air.

On a cold, thin-aired world where sound barely carries, a NASA rover has picked up something that should not be possible: the crackle of lightning on Mars. Instead of the deep, rolling thunder ...

Researchers believe Perseverance recorded 55 instances of "mini lightning," providing the first sound evidence of Martian electrical activity. The lightning occurs during dust storms and dust devils, ...

Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and vanishes before the eye adj.

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