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The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...

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 ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but... At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is ...