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A record-breaking lightning megaflash, stretching 829 kilometres, stunned scientists after occurring during a thunderstorm ...
Just days after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the 6th largest in recorded history, shook Russia, another powerful natural ...
Social media users were blown away by the scene in the viral clip, with one saying: "the odds of catching this must be astronomical." ...
An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Peterson recently confirmed the longest horizontal lightning flash ever measured: a staggering 829 ...
A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...
Heat lightning is often the term used on a summer night when lightning is seen, but no thunder is heard. While this is a real ...
Catatumbo lightning phenomenon mysterious disappeared for months in 2010. August 2, 2011— -- A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on ...