The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is finally understood.

One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on the planet's surface. While scientists have long theorized ...

For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than crackling electricity. The first confirmed detection of tiny lightning-like ...

(WJW) – NASA is reporting new discoveries from Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured video and audio of electrical discharges and tiny sonic booms inside dust devils swirling on the surface of ...

A team from Penn State has documented in the wild the elusive electrical coronas that for nearly a century had only been hypothesized.

When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of electric plasma. These electrical arcs are difficult to control. They branch ...