Nature abounds with mysterious displays, and few match lightning for sheer brilliance, but there's one form of lightning that ...

A digital illustration of a ball of electricity. (Vladlen Tian/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When you picture lightning, it tends to be fairly straightforward – a jagged gash of light that splits the sky, ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

Rapid satellite observations follow thunderstorms’ chemical footprints, offering a route to better air quality and climate models.

Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has ...

A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night across a large swath of the world’s surface. By Nicholas Bakalar Lightning comes and goes in ...

Across the country, pools close when lightning is in the area. For outdoor pools, the rationale is clear: About 10 to 15 people are killed by lightning in the United States each year, and the vast ...