Check out this lightning streak across the sky in Washington D.C. The video is from an apartment near D.C.'s Logan Circle. It shows a bright orange lightning strike on the right side of the screen, ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed a new world record for the longest single lightning flash ever recorded, an astonishing 829 kilometers (515 miles). This “megaflash” lit up ...

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

A honeymoon tragedy. A groom was enjoying a day on the beach with his bride when, out of nowhere, he was hit by lightning in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He was standing in ankle-deep water. 29-year-old ...

A police officer’s dash camera captured the moment lightning struck a pole off a highway Monday in South Carolina, causing it to erupt into a fireball. The dash cam footage shows the police officer ...

The skies put on a lightning show for Santa Barbara on Tuesday night with 54 strikes in one hour recorded by the National Weather Service. Credit: Mike Eliason photo Rain and lightning illuminated the ...

No matter how jaded you might be from a lifetime's worth of crazy videos on the internet, lightning will still bring a kind of awestruck wonder to your life. Check out this footage of a terrifying ...

Low on the horizon in the Texas Panhandle, a faint pink aurora shimmered against a backdrop of thick storm clouds and distant flashes of lightning-a surreal collision of sky and space. Just east of ...

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, ...

Catatumbo lightning phenomenon mysterious disappeared for months in 2010. August 2, 2011— -- A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on Earth ...