Lightning is the most beautiful and dramatic demonstration of electricity in nature, yet its origin has long eluded a ...

Scientists using satellite data discovered a record-breaking lightning bolt that stretched 515 miles from Texas to Kansas ...

A new model reveals how cosmic electrons and X-rays trigger lightning, solving a decades-old mystery about what starts a lightning strike.

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most ...

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

Photoelectric feedback discharges initiate lightning with no constrains on densities or physical origin of seed runaway ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

Though it sounds like something out of science fiction, space hurricanes are real, and they don't come with lightning or ...

Heat indices are expected to climb between 95 and 105 degrees for most of central Wisconsin Wednesday. High temps will bring ...