Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a ...

American politics continue to be as omnipresent as they are endlessly divisive. It's easy to feel that progress is going backwards in these trying times, which is why some look to the past to glean ...

Weather patterns channeling moisture into the state have led to an abundance of lightning strikes that have ignited hundreds of wildfires. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the longest single lightning flash ever recorded. There are only two places on ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Three people were injured after being struck by lightning in a popular summer beach getaway town on Saturday night. Two of the victims of the strike in St. Augustine Pier in Florida were transported ...

A family of three was struck by lightning while under an umbrella at a beach in Florida's Pinellas County, officials said Friday. St. Pete Beach Fire Rescue was dispatched to the scene at 12:19 p.m., ...

As the summer months approach, lightning activity will soon ramp up. More than 70% of lightning-related deaths take place in June, July and August. Those months are also when people spend the most ...

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, ...