Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn State-led study reveals the hidden chain reaction that starts lightning, linking electrons, X-rays, and gamma rays. (CREDIT ...

Kimberley artist Jeanne Barnes is one of the few people — an estimated one in nine million — who have been hit by lightning not once, but twice.

Tributes have poured in for a young woman fatally struck by lightning on a sporting field as Australia's east coast braces for more wild weather. Flowers have been left at the Queensland soccer ground ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.