For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

Lightning, often associated with hills and mountainous terrain, is not confined to high ground and can strike anywhere under ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...

A small Oklahoma town overtook a tiny Texas community in 2025 as the U.S. lightning capital, where lightning density counts ...

SAWS has warned Gauteng residents to take lightning storm warnings seriously after a number of people were fatally struck by lightning.