We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

The difficulty with this, they explain, is that while lightning radio frequency signals can be mapped using ground sensors ...

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

More information: Xuan-Min Shao et al, 3D Radio Frequency Mapping and Polarization Observations Show Lightning Flashes Were ...

Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

The how-does-lightning-start question has proven hard ... a phenomenon they attributed to the aforementioned cosmic ray showers. According to the release, those showers yield secondary, high ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

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The difficulty with this, they explain, is that while lightning radio frequency signals can be mapped using ground sensors from any direction, the cosmic rays cannot. Instead, they could come from ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Cosmic-ray showers, consisting of high-energy particles from space, appear to play a significant role in triggering lightning flashes. Observations using a 3D ...

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 ...

Earth’s magnetic field acts as a protective barrier against the majority of these cosmic rays, and there is a measurable increase in radiation as you gain altitude and enter space. In space ...