This lightning bolt over Oklahoma was one of the rarest and most powerful on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sky turns ...

While a thunderstorm can put on quite a show for spectators on the ground, the best bits often happen above the clouds. Scientists have now described in detail the most powerful “gigantic jet” of ...

Lightning from thunderstorms doesn’t just strike the ground. Sometimes it goes up, forming a rarely seen type of electrical discharge known as a "gigantic jet" that connects the top of the clouds to ...

A massive lightning bolt that erupted from a cloud over Oklahoma and struck the edge of space in 2018 may be one of the most powerful such bolts ever recorded. That’s according to a new study in the ...