Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare gigantic jet near the U.S.-Mexico border from the International Space Station on July ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...

An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border. Referred to as “space lightning” and ...

When Apollo 12, NASA's second lunar landing mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center, the space vehicle was struck by lightning— twice. On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 prepared to bring three ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...

Sprites are what scientists refer to as transient luminous events (TLEs) that happen above the clouds during periods of intense electrical activity, like lightning. Ayers, who is quite the astral ...

Lightning from Plains storms near Wichita captured by International Space Station SpaceTV-1 camera in orbit over Kansas on May 5, 2026.

As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States — before floodwaters catastrophically rose in Central Texas — a NASA astronaut watched the storms from miles above. Nichole ...