While reporting during an active storm, meteorologist Tony Laubach is caught off guard when a powerful lightning bolt strikes dangerously close by in Gardner, Illinois on March 10.

Lightning that struck a tree in Davenport also damaged windows in a nearby home in the McClellan Heights area on Sunday ...

The current inscribes some victims’ skin with mysterious scarlike patterns called Lichtenberg figures, which resemble the ...

As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few ...