Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a huge red sprite arcing over a North American storm from the International ...

A rare and visually stunning electrical phenomenon lit up the skies over North America earlier this week, as NASA astronaut ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

When navigating big waves, it is always best to zig-zag or diagonally back and forth across waves. Running head on into big ...

A dozen people were taken to hospitals Tuesday after a lightning strike at a South Carolina lake, officials said.

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed ...

Jupiter also has storms, like the Great Red Spot, that last for centuries. And while ammonia gas and water vapor rise, freeze into droplets, like snow, and rain down continually, there is no solid ...

Jupiter also has storms, like the Great Red Spot, that last for centuries. And while ammonia gas and water vapor rise, freeze into droplets, like snow, and rain down continually, there is no solid ...

The storms likely extend around 60 miles (100 kilometers) below Jupiter's swirling surface and, although their exact widths have not been calculated yet, both storms "are wide enough to swallow ...

In a newly released picture, a green bolt of lightning was spotted in the middle of a Jupiter storm. The image was captured in December on Juno's 31st flyby of the planet.

The tremendous burst of lightning glows bright against the dark gray vortex of the storm, even from Juno’s vantage point 19,900 miles above the tops of Jupiter’s clouds.

The Juno spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of Jupiter earlier this year, and NASA has shared stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet's cloud tops.