A lightning struck Hoover Tower last Sunday morning, shattering its concrete orb and scattering debris, according to the Hoover Institution’s Assistant Director of Operations Jeffrey Jones.

Ball lightning, a phenomenon in which a glowing orb of light persists for seconds after a lightning strike, is one of the most enduring atmospheric mysteries in science. Reported sightings date as ...

Goodness gracious, a great ball of lightning seen in China offers the first evidence in nature that the elusive glowing orbs form thanks to vaporised dirt. In 2012, Jianyong Cen and his colleagues ...

The phenomenon is often described as a hovering orb of light – smaller than a beach ball – that lasts for a few seconds or minutes. It is thought to occur when lightning strikes the ground ...

A video that seems to show fiery "orbs" flying during a thunderstorm ... of fire floating in the sky, while lightning flashes around them. Although no thunder can be heard during the clip a ...

The physics behind a weird electrical phenomenon — glowing orbs of lightning — may be mimicked ... around by a magnetic field when in reality no such magnetic field existed.

The strange orb was discovered by rabbi Michael Oishie who upon looking at the CCTV footage discovered that something was amiss. No wiser as ... called 'ball lightning'. Known throughout the ...

While the orb is indeed a bit strange to see after so many observations of the planet, NASA says that it’s just a lightning bolt. The image, which was shared earlier this month, shows the green ...