For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. CREDIT: Photo by Liu Wei/Xinhua via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a stormy pre-dawn morning in late 2017, a lightning bolt near Dallas unzipped the sky, racing northeast through the clouds of a ...

Low on the horizon in the Texas Panhandle, a faint pink aurora shimmered against a backdrop of thick storm clouds and distant flashes of lightning—a surreal collision of sky and space. Just east of ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) — A recent storm produced a fascinating scene that a Cincinnati-area man happened to catch while recording the Ohio sky. The man, Kevin Dinan, posted the 6-second clip on ...

ATLANTA — Lightning: It's fast, it's ferocious, and it's a common reality of summertime here in the south. In north Georgia, there is a nearly daily pattern of pop-up storms throughout the warmest ...