When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula ... once considered little more than an annoyance: cosmic dust. For many years, astronomers thought of ...

In the late 1940s, the US Naval Research Laboratory used a few German-built V2 rockets to study cosmic rays from above Earth’s atmosphere. To do this, a nitrogen-powered cloud chamber was ...

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright ... A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located ...