Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Two scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have discovered a new type of electromagnetic wave, called a "whistler," that transports energy from lightning to Earth's magnetosphere. This ...

Strange lightning-strike rashes? Exploding trees? A lake that's a lightning magnet? These lightning facts will, well, shock ...

A bolt of lightning can heat up to 50,000 °F in less than a second, helping to produce a sound we know as thunder. The temperature is around five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

A fast-moving wildfire has caused the closure of a major Turkish airport as well as the evacuation of some 50,000 people from ...

Florida's geography makes summer one of the more dangerous seasons meteorologically, with spiking daytime temperatures that ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

"This is what lightning looks like from the top down," McClain said in a post shared May 21. Here's a closer look at just what they managed to capture from above Earth's atmosphere.

Lightning Safety Awareness Week hopes to bring this deadly event to people's attention. Here's how prevalent lightning was in ...

A rainstorm gathers over the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus. Photo Courtesy LANL BY XUAN-MIN SHAOLos Alamos National ...

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT.

From the ISS, scientists are capturing rare lightning above storms that could impact radio, climate, and safety.