Lightning is one of nature's most powerful and unpredictable forces, and these incredible moments prove just how dangerous it ...

The oak tree is now in a hundred or more pieces. Half is standing, while the other half was blown apart.

Experts say tens of millions of lightning bolts (cloud-to-cloud and ground strikes) every year across Florida.

Vlad Skuridin, 13, survived a lightning strike after a bolt hit his Texas home and sent an electric shock through a metal part of his desk while he was playing a computer game.

Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and reroute its path through the sky. In a mountaintop experiment, such a laser bent lightning toward a lightning ...

From a distance, lightning can be beautiful, fascinating and terrifying—even surpassing the fear factor of a potential Sharknado. Now, a pair of extreme records recently certified by the World ...

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

Although we tend to think of lightning as a bolt that crashes to the earth from the sky, lightning can strike the ground or hit inside clouds or the air. According to the U.S. National Severe Storm ...

Lightning is the discharge of electricity caused by an imbalance between the positive and negative charges that build up in a thundercloud. Most lightning flashes occur between or within clouds, but ...