Lightning forms due to a difference in charges. Negative charges accumulates at the bottom of the storm cloud. Of course, opposites attract. A positive charge accumulates on the ground under the ...

Ohio was hit with severe thunderstorms, prompting severe weather watches. Why does it feel like these storms always happen at night?

Scientists still debate the details of how exactly lightning forms, but it likely has to do with what happens when a cloud is floating in the freezing air high above us. Tiny ice particles form ...

“We’re trying to understand how do you go from non-life to life ... might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building blocks, like amino acids.