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 ...

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 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 ...

Turns out, the glowing orb is a lightning bolt, NASA says. While lightning on Earth often comes from water clouds near the equator, clouds containing an ammonia-water solution oftentimes cause ...