A megaflash lightning strike is an unusually long lightning bolt that stretches at least 62 miles. These aren’t your typical ...

We have heard the saying: 'April showers brings May flowers.' This proverb leaves out the critical role of lightning.

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

As we enter the severe weather season it's a good time to prepare and practice your severe weather plan whether it's at home, work, or school.

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Lightning flashes over the Mediterranean Sea (AFP via Getty) For nearly two billion years after it formed, the Earth contained a swirl of chemicals, but organic molecules needed for making ...

Incredibly frequent lightning flashes from the thunderstorms that caused devastation in the Lower Mississippi Valley on March 15, were captured from space, imagery released by the National Oceanic and ...