Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

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

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 ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayers took the photograph while orbiting about 250 miles above Earth. NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers proved ...

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 ...

Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for ...

Witness a terrifying nature moment as intense lightning strikes during a powerful storm. Experience the raw force of nature ...

ATLANTA — Lightning: It's fast, it's ferocious, and it's a common reality of summertime here in the south. In north Georgia, there is a nearly daily pattern of pop-up storms throughout the warmest ...

A storm chaser says he "screamed" when he captured an elusive natural phenomenon, known as red sprites, on video.