Lightning

Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space, new images from NASA's Earth Observatory reveal.

Here's why a motorcycle's rubber tires didn't protect the rider when lightning struck.

Is there a cosmic origin for human bipedalism?

A single thundercloud is more powerful than even the most potent nuclear plants on Earth. Scientists used cosmic rays to prove it.

Scavengers are helping transform a grim landscape in Norway

The strange radio bursts usually circle the Earth like electromagnetic ghosts, but scientists have now created and studied their shapes in a plasma chamber on Earth.

If you draw lightning bolts like crooked zigzags, then you're doing it wrong — but at least you're in good company. Artists have drawn lightning incorrectly for hundreds of years, a new study finds.

Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.

A powerful storm is causing ice crystals to form strange, radar-confusing patterns above New York City.

Death from lightning strike hit a record low in 2017 in the United States, according to a new report.