Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that's been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it's so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience.

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(Credit: Science Advances) This natural phenomenon happens constantly in ocean waves, waterfalls, and rainfall. Unlike lightning strikes, which are rare and random ... They demonstrated that the ...

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

Longer wave periods, known as groundswells, typically cause more powerful waves. (iStock) (Getty) Visible satellite images captured on Friday, March 21, 2025, showing a polar low to the south ...

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

A new technique pioneered by scientists at the University of Maryland uses lasers to create a “little ball of lightning” than ... This is not a new phenomenon, but we are the first to use ...

Their new paper is the first to show that trees can benefit from these electric jolts ... other species show lightning tolerance, to better understand how common this phenomenon is.

Astronomer Allan Trow, who witnessed the phenomenon in Wales’s Bannau Brycheiniog National Park around 20:00, confirmed its rarity. “But these are pretty rare,” he told the BBC while ...