Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Every splash of water on Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical ... High-speed cameras operating at 20,000 frames per second captured the motion of the droplets ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

When marine scientist Mustafa Asfur made a tiny storm in a box, he stumbled on a possible solution to a long-standing mystery: why bolts of lightning are brighter over the ocean than they are over ...