Darwin residents have reported seeing rare green lightning in a record-breaking storm that created the strongest wind gust since Cyclone Tracy. Several theories surround the mystique of green ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Although green lightning seems unusual, Few now suspects it occurs during all thunderstorms but is concealed inside clouds. Secret Origins The concealment results from the structure of storm clouds.

A recent study says lightning works the same way on Jupiter as it does here on Earth — just with about 10,000 times more energy. Storm clouds are turbulent, chaotic places, with updrafts that ...

The spacecraft was 32,000 kilometers (19,900 miles) above Jupiter's clouds near the north pole at 78 degrees of latitude when it captured the green bolt. The color of the lightning is certainly ...

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing massive bolts of green lightning. Some experts think the pale clouds could ...