Most people probably have an intuition that lightning is big, but few people grasp the true potential scope that a single bolt of lighting can have.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Lightning is most common during the summer, ...

For the first time, a team of scientists used high-frequency satellite observations to create an experiment that can detect lightning and its impact on the air. The team found that thunderstorms ...

Flashes of microlightning between microscopic bubbles of methane in water may ignite the eerie blue flames of will-o’-the wisps, new research suggests.

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...