Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make lightning flashes difficult or even impossible to see. Meteorologists call ...

An electrifying storm lit up the skies over Havana in the early hours of Tuesday, resulting in breathtaking images that ...

Lightning may look like a sudden burst from the clouds, but its true origin lies in an invisible storm of cosmic rays, X-rays, and high-energy electrons. A breakthrough study led by Penn State ...

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

A new model reveals how cosmic electrons and X-rays trigger lightning, solving a decades-old mystery about what starts a lightning strike.

The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...

It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...

Cameron Glendenning, the cinematographer behind "Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne," has opened up about filming the documentary in the wake of the late music legend's passing.

The Great Lakes Aquarium in northern Minnesota was struck by lightning Wednesday.

Bader canceled his Nike contract in favor of a deal with Bruce Bolt, a small Texas firm with its signature lightning bolt logo.

A lightning bolt struck a Minnesota aquarium’s rooftop camera in Duluth. The July 23 strike caused no injuries but was caught on Duluth Harbor Cam.