Most of us think about lightning striking downward from the clouds. But lightning can also strike upward from the ground, or even upward from clouds into the top of the atmosphere. In tall storm ...

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

"Heat lightning" is a common term for lightning seen from a distance without hearing the associated thunder.

As particles rub together from wind friction in a thunderstorm, the charges separate and static electricity develops. The negative charges or electrons separate to the bottom of the thunderstorm, ...

Lightning is one of nature's most powerful forces—striking the Earth millions of times a day with bolts five times hotter than the surface of the sun. But what if humans could actually influence how ...

Lightning fills the sky during overnight storms in Oklahoma ...