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Thunderstorms can produce an exotic kind of electrical breakdown that involves high-energy electrons and their anti-matter equivalent called positrons (University of Minnesota)

Scientists Explain Invisible ‘Dark Lightning’

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Scientists have found a field of what could be the world's largest seafloor pockmarks. The largest of these crater-like structures is 6.8 miles in diameter and 328 feet deep (GNS Science)

Mysterious Giant Crater-like Structures Found near New-Zealand

Apr 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of researchers led by marine geophysicist Dr Bryan Davy from GNS Science has found what may be the world’s biggest pockmarks...

An image shows a comet striking coastal Yucatan, forming the giant Chicxulub impact crater and causing the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs (Don Davis / NASA)

U.S. Scientists Say Comet, not Asteroid, Wiped out Dinosaurs

Apr 5, 2013 by Sci-News.com

An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...

A new study shows that an asteroid believed to have smacked Earth some 66 million years ago likely caused a global firestorm that led to extensive plant and animal extinctions (NASA / JPL)

Chicxulub Asteroid May Have Caused Global Firestorm 66M Years Ago

Mar 28, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm...

The Isabella anomaly, IA, is at the same depth as other fragments of the Farallon plate under Oregon and Washington (Forsyth lab / Brown University)

Scientists Find Remains of Ancient Tectonic Plate beneath California

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...

Reconstruction of India-Madagascar-Seychelles, Mauritius and other potential Proterozoic continental fragments that constituted Mauritia 750 million years ago (Trond H. Torsvik et al)

Geoscientists Discover Microcontinent Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean

Feb 25, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent...

Lightning in Australia (University of Minnesota)

Mystery of Ball Lightning Solved?

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning. Sightings of ball...

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, shines above Bear Lake, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska (Senior Airman Joshua Strang)

Listening to Sounds of Northern Lights

Jul 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the Aalto University in Finland has located where the sounds associated with the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are created. The...