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 ...

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 ...

Rather, this image shows lightning strikes on Earth, illuminating clouds at night as seen from above. "This is what lightning looks like from the top down," wrote Anne McClain, a NASA astronauts ...

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 ...

Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ... These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to ...

So-called ‘fire clouds’ are not literally made of flames, but as thunder clouds they have the potential to spit out lightning and spark still more fires on the ground.

Experts attribute the increased occurrence of lightning to the frequent presence of Cumulonimbus clouds, heavy and dense ... Notwithstanding the prediction of an above-normal rainfall, the state ...