A rare and visually stunning electrical phenomenon lit up the skies over North America earlier this week, as NASA astronaut ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

As summer begins and more people spend time outdoors, Floridians know that it’s likely to storm each afternoon from June to ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

Thankfully, there were no fatalities, but 12 children and eight adults were electrocuted by the lightning strike at a public ...

SC is considered one of the most lightning-prone states, with an average of 14.6 strikes per square mile each year.

Michael Peterson, an applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, is one of ...

A storm chaser discovered a flaming hay bale on Thursday night while following a lightning storm that blanketed parts of ...

Lightning strike occurred on hot and sunny day with no rainfall, though lone storm cloud had briefly passed overhead, says ...