Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second, on average. Despite this, ...

The initial stroke of a lightning bolt races through the sky at a staggering 220,000 kilometers per hour, or about 136,700 miles per hour. It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it phenomenon. However ...

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

Credit: Don Pettit/NASA NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his ... (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around ...

Rare red flashes, known as 'red sprites', illuminated the Himalayan sky in May 2022, astonishing both astrophotographers and scientists.

In 1936, he began his career as a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park, a position that would intertwine his fate with nature's most electrifying phenomenon ... a lightning bolt struck a ...

Additionally, Shao said, a bolt of lightning originates in just a few ... team noticed an unusual pattern at the beginning of that phenomenon. According to the news release, a fast positive ...

Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life ... “Given that lightning is an intermittent and unpredictable phenomenon, whereas water sprays are so common ...