Lightning is one of nature’s most spectacular and terrifying phenomena. The bright flashes and booming thunder have caught ...

Lightning, which can heat the atmosphere to five times the temperature of the surface of the sun, is the result of a powerful ...

A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most powerful strikes.

The brief reprieve on the way includes daytime highs in the 70s and lowered dew points. Benjamin Franklin famously quipped: “Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.” Franklin was ahead of his time ...

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

We still don't know why tornados happen, but we're getting closer to finding answers — just as the Trump administration ...

The morning light gently broke, casting a glow over clouds that billowed like snow-capped mountains, while the crowing of roosters added a serene touch to the dawn at a lightning research base, where ...

During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the ...

Tidal kites have been developed that can fly in undersea currents with blades tethered in the shape of an eight. This proves ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was quietly transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a ...

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Israel to discuss the disintegrating humanitarian ...