The little thing at the bottom of this image is the space shuttle Endeavour, which was supposed to launch today. That huge glowing thing is a lightning striking from the sky. Not surprisingly, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Thunderstorms threatened to delay the last space shuttle launch, set for today, and a lightning strike near the pad prompted NASA to convene an engineering panel to discuss any ...

On April 14, 1981, the first NASA space shuttle mission came to a successful end when the space shuttle Colombia returned to Earth following a two-day test flight. On Friday, July 31, 2009, the crew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's safe to say that most of us have seen lightning here on Earth plenty of times – some of us have even been struck by it. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. May 07, 2025, 11:47am EDT NASA's Nichole Ayers turned a camera toward ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA scrubbed space shuttle Endeavour's Saturday evening launch after lightning struck at least 11 times near the seaside launch pad. NASA technicians found no damage after ...

A stunning image captured by a NASA astronaut showing a red ‘sprite lightning’ above a thunderstorm is going viral again one ...

An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a rare kind of lightning called a sprite while traveling 250 miles above the Texas–Mexico border. Referred to as “space lightning” and ...

In May 2025, astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain posted photos on X of lightning roiling far, far beneath them. The photos were captured at speeds of 120 frames per second, with the depicted ...