Scientists using satellite data discovered a record-breaking lightning bolt that stretched 515 miles from Texas to Kansas ...

Lightning strikes at 50,000 degrees. That is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. This week is Lightning Safety Awareness Week, and brings with it many ways of understanding lightning ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A photo shows lightning strike an area near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge earlier this week. Mike Soby said he snapped the photo around 9:20 p.m. Monday as he was heading north ...

A truck was struck by lightning during an intense thunderstorm in Texas last week, and the entire thing was caught on video.

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

Footage here shows lightning flashing in Hebron. “Before all the tornado warnings I saw this beautiful bright bolt,” the recorder wrote. Credit: @chasingstorms01 via Storyful ...

He was really twitching. Wild video captured the moment a gamer was struck by lightning while livestreaming from inside his ...

Melted pavement from a lightning strike in Hatfield, MA today! That hole is steaming from the strike, if you can't tell. Amazing photo by Sarah Schatz @NWSBoston @PeteNBCBoston @ericfisher ...

Teruaki Enoto, a physicist at Kyoto University in Japan, proved for the first time, in a paper published Nov. 23, that lightning bolts work as natural particle accelerators.