Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has ...

On top of a Swiss mountain, a car-sized laser has helped guide lightning from the sky to the ground. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — If you love to watch thunderstorms, odds are you greatly enjoy the spectacular light show that comes with it. Lightning is incredibly powerful and also unbelievably dangerous ...

Scientists have found that lightning bolts and, surprisingly, subvisible discharges that cannot be seen by cameras or the naked eye produce extreme amounts of the hydroxyl radical and hydroperoxyl ...

This week, scientists announced a flashy development in how lightning strikes are directed. Lightning strikes are responsible for thousands of deaths each year and result in billions of dollars worth ...

The exact recipe for how life got started on Earth – and whether it’s appeared on other planets too – are some of the most profound mysteries of science. Now, scientists have found that lightning ...

Lightning is one of the most common weather phenomena- it’s estimated that 100 strikes hit the Earth every second, yet it’s one of the most misunderstood. I’d like to change that by clearing up some ...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

MISSOULA. Mont. — Thunderstorms have been developing each afternoon across western Montana, and some of them produced plenty of lightning. In the video above, Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs breaks down ...

The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When ...

Chinese researchers have done the seemingly impossible: observed and recorded an instance of ball lightning completely by accident. And it bodes well for a decade-old theory about the nature of the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Lightning is most common during the summer, ...