Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

Since 2011, several lightning strikes at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B have been captured with high speed cameras. Watch this amazing footage. Credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center Music: Whis ...

Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, a never-ending lightning storm lights up the sky. Warm, humid air from the lake collides ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Extreme fire seasons in recent years highlight the urgent need to better understand wildfires within the broader context of ...

Four female soccer players were killed in Colombia after being struck by lightning during a game in the village of El Real, according to multiple reports.

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It might come even closer in the future, with scientists estimating a one-in-2,700 chance of a collision with Earth in September 2182. So what would happen should Bennu strike our planet?

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space weather. Read from CU expert Lauren Blum on The Conversation.