The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

National Weather Service data showed lightning strikes all over the region, from off the coast to deep into eastern ...

Water molecules condense around nuclei to form clouds ... In our latest study, my colleagues and I describe how lightning ...

Andrei Vasilevskiy recorded his sixth shutout of the season after stopping 21 shots as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have ...

SEATTLE — Thunderstorms that progressed slowly over the western Washington region Wednesday evening produced lightning strikes ... carrying water vapor that begins to cool as the air rises.

A Texas home was struck by lightning six times — and it was caught on a neighbor's doorbell camera. The Bell County Fire ...

Our newly published research shows how lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half ... but in a single liter of air—about the size of a water bottle—there are tens of thousands of tiny ...