Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

As summer begins and more people spend time outdoors, Floridians know that it’s likely to storm each afternoon from June to ...

The likely distribution of electric charge of a cumulonimbus cloud has been drawn onto this User-generated Content image of a storm taken on Aug 27, 2022, from Carrot River, SK, and uploaded to ...

Here's what you need to know. How lightning is made. People have been trying to figure out why the sky breaks out into a scary light-and-sound show for centuries, and it wasn't until the 1900s ...

A new study suggests that cloud-to-ground lightning likely provided the necessary material for the first organisms on Earth to form.