From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers proved this just last summer. On July 1, 2025 the former ISS crew member documented a dramatic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Nichole Ayers turned a camera toward Earth and caught this view ...

An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border. Referred to as “space lightning” and ...

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

For decades, scientists suspected that Martian dust storms might crackle with electricity, but they had never caught the planet in the act. Now NASA has recorded the unmistakable signature of ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $297.1 million contract from NASA to oversee the development of a lightning mapping instrument called the GeoXO Lightning Mapper. NASA said Tuesday the ...