Video released by Mount Pleasant police shows a lightning strike on a busy highway in South Carolina, knocking down power lines and causing outages. No injuries were reported. A dramatic lightning ...

Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...

A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas ...

A lightning strike caused issues in South Carolina, with video capturing the moment a bolt hit an area near a busy highway ...

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

Lightning, a sudden discharge of electricity during thunderstorms, requires four conditions: intense heating, high humidity, ...