Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and can reach temperatures around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. COLUMBIA, S.C. — ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...

NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

A wave of moisture is set to hit the Bay Area, with possible thunderstorms, lightning and hail on the horizon.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Nonetheless, the video includes numerous transient luminous events (TLEs), or upper atmospheric lightning, from the rare and breathtaking blue jet to web-like sprites. ("Nadir view" refers to the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station.