Lightning is so common that most people stop noticing it, yet the physics packed into a single flash is genuinely extreme. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, ...

Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a mystery—especially the strange mechanics behind terrestrial ...

A weather enthusiast in North Carolina was treated to what they said was an evening sky “on fire” with lightning on August 3, with cloud flashes and bolts, and even a rainbow, combining to make the ...

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The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...

New high-speed footage settles a controversy over how electric charges make the connection that leads to bolts of lightning. Photo by Pete Hunt via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Lightning bolts are ...

A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet in that instant it becomes one of the hottest phenomena that ...