Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

Golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce, Florida, got a close-up look at the raw power of lightning, right on Hole 3. A lightning bolt struck the green during a storm on Friday afternoon, ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

Picture this: You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you ...

A Tokyo-based tech giant claims to have created the first drone in the world to induce and guide lightning strikes. Like Zeus on his winged chariot, or – more realistically – a flying lightning rod, ...