Thunder isn’t just loud noise. Its pitch, rumble, and duration are shaped by the exact path lightning takes through the air.

Thunderstorms are one of nature's most fascinating and dangerous occurrences. We have all witnessed a lightning bolt illuminating the night sky and heard the booming crack of thunder that follows. As ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

Josh Gross Lightning Bolt playing on the floor at The Shredder Sun day night. Sunday night around 10 p.m., you might have thought someone was testing nuclear weapons in downtown Boise. Or perhaps you ...

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping our understanding of extreme weather. Thanks to advanced satellite tech, ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...