Lightning can also sometimes flash from the ground to the cloud when electrical charges build up at the surface and connect ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of Thor in Norse mythology or Indra in Hinduism. In Australia, lightning is ...

Singapore logs one of the highest lightning strike rates in the world.On July 5, a man died after he was struck by lightning ...

Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...