A bolt of lightning can heat up to 50,000 °F in less than a second, helping to produce a sound we know as thunder. The temperature is around five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A rare occurrence - a bolt of lightning striking a tree - was captured on video in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, and the clip is going viral on social media on ...

Palabek Secondary School in the northern Uganda district of Lamwo near the South Sudan border has become the centre of a campaign to increase safety precautions against lightning strikes in Uganda.

‘I’m hurting, but I’m here’: Baton Rouge mother survives lightning strike A Baton Rouge Woman is alive and doing as well as she can be after being struck by lightning not even one week ago.

Groundskeepers at the Treetops Resort’s Smith Tradition Golf Course in Gaylord, Michigan, arrived Wednesday morning to find a lightning bolt had struck the course’s 11th fairway.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a gigantic jet — a rare type of lightning that shoots up to space — from the International Space Station.

Amazing lightning streaks were captured on video on June 21 as intense storms rolled through in Ontario and Quebec after dark.

Lightning injures 8 in Florida, kills one in different events as summer storms roil the state Kimberly Miller Palm Beach Post 0:03 ...

The group, who were visiting from Kentucky, later got tattoos of small lightning bolts on their ankles to commemorate the event. “They were lucky,” Jensenius said.