A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

When thunder rumbles in the distance, there's a quick and simple way to figure out how close the lightning actually struck based on the speed of sound. After you see a flash of lightning, start ...

Spectacular lightning lit up the night sky as thunderstorms brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Los Angeles on Thursday ...

Scientists believe it's unlikely the first person to plant a flag on the red planet would be stuck by lightning.