This is the most out-of-this-world Vine you'll see all week. Reid Wiseman, an American astronaut on the International Space Station, has been documenting his adventures on Vine. His latest post is ...

The energy needed for thunderstorms could come from an avalanche of electrons seeded by extraterrestrial cosmic rays, a new study claims. Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical ...

The images, posted from orbit, show Humberto's swirling cloud bands with pulses of light radiating from within its core.

These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...

Nasa astronaut Jonny Kim has shared striking images of Hurricane Humberto, including rare lightning activity within the storm's eye, taken from the International Space Station.

A hidden magnetic island inside a coronal hole unleashed a surprise G3 storm, sparking dazzling displays across the US.

From Franklin’s kite in a storm to Einstein’s special relativity to QED - electromagnetism has gone on to explain everything ...