A tourist hit by lightning on a Florida beach has died after days spent in critical condition at a hospital, according to first responders. The identity of the man and details of his injuries were not ...

Red sprites hover between 40 and 55 miles high. Up there, the air is thin, so electric fields can spark gigantic filaments ...

The Weather Authority says a hot day is on tap with temperatures reaching the low to mid-90s Sunday afternoon.

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above Earth.

The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from above the clouds as they orbited in the International Space Station. In Ayers' post on X ...

On first glance, you might think this was a nebula, especially if given the photo was taken by an astronaut. Rather, this image shows lightning strikes on Earth, illuminating clouds at night as ...

This successfully triggered a lightning strike from the storm cloud above, which partially melted the Faraday cage around the drone. The team observed blue flashes of lightning and "popping sounds ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ...

Wildfires raging across the US and Canada recently were so huge they even spread to the sky, creating clouds that only appear above superhot heat sources. So-called ‘fire clouds’ are not ...