Scientists monitor 'first direct evidence' of thunderstorms blasting antimatter clouds into space

It was once the preserve of Star Trek and other science-fiction television shows.

But scientists looking at thunderstorms through a telescope have now picked up on antimatter clouds being blasted into space from Earth.

The phenomenon is produced by a reaction inside thunderstorms when circling the planet.

Spotted above thunderstorms around the world, the blasts were monitored by Nasa researchers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope... Read More