NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan, Italy on July 1, 2025. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

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This is the most out-of-this-world Vine you'll see all week. Reid Wiseman, an American astronaut on the International Space Station, has been documenting his adventures on Vine. His latest post is ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

In a rare sight, lightning struck the Seattle Space Needle on Monday. The Space Needle Twitter account shared a short video showing the thunderous strike.

For decades, planetary scientists looked at the massive dust storms on Mars and wondered if they produced electricity. These storms can grow until they wrap around the entire planet, moving millions ...