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 ...

The servers, it seems, couldn't handle players filling their screens with lightning bolts and frozen orbs, so Blizzard had to step in yesterday and fix it. Thanks to a new legendary power in ...

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 ...