There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

One of the ways to disturb electrons in the inner radiation belt and kick them into Earth’s atmosphere actually begins in the atmosphere itself. Lightning, the large electromagnetic discharges ...

In Livingston, Louisiana, a terrifying close call was caught on camera as a lightning strike hit just yards from @Stormmasterjohn's house. Captured as the QLCS storms rolled through the area, the ...

Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, a never-ending lightning storm lights up the sky. Warm, humid air from the lake collides with cold mountain winds, creating the perfect conditions for constant ...

Tasmania has been burning for more than two weeks, with no end in sight. Almost 100,000 hectares of bushland in the northwest ...

A global team of researchers has turned its focus to an earlier detection of lightning strikes which cause devastating ...

Lightning strikes the U.S about 25 million times per year, with most of the strikes occurring during the summer months.

The two friends, both 43, were sitting just centimetres apart, leaning over Amanda’s phone trying to post a photo on Snapchat ...