Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...

It is thought that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals. Yet the exact ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island of Koh ...

Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem ...

MISSOULA. Mont. — Thunderstorms have been developing each afternoon across western Montana, and some of them produced plenty of lightning. In the video above, Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs breaks down ...

Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was ...

Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a vital role in the origins of life on Earth. Further, the finding may actually provide some clues as to how the ...

The characteristic zigzag pattern of lightning is caused by a highly conductive form of oxygen that builds up as the bolt travels toward the ground. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his triumph was an electrifying moment in more ways than one. As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled, Frankenstein’s monster ...