NASA Kennedy Space Center camera captures amazing lightning strikes near the Artemis 1 moon rocket. Credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Rain sound effect courtesy ...

This is the dramatic moment a moving car was struck – by a bolt of lightning. Video captured last week (August 5) in Beihai, China shows the slow-moving vehicle being hit – while the drive is still ...

A security camera in north central Wisconsin captured the dramatic moment when a bolt of lightning struck a white pine tree on Sept. 9, causing a fire that prompted neighbors to spring into action. A ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Welp, Florida Man is at it again. However, this isn’t the usual type of story you hear with that preface. This time we’re going to discuss an incredible weather phenomenon. Shoen Tripp draws comics ...

WAYNE, N.J. (WPVI) -- Video captured the reaction of a startled delivery driver who was nearly struck by a bolt of lightning outside a house in Wayne, New Jersey. In the video, the delivery driver is ...

Lightning strikes near the Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) They say lightning never strikes twice. But in recent days it ...

PLAINFIELD, New Jersey (WABC) -- Police believe a lightning strike from strong thunderstorms may have caused a house fire in Plainfield on Friday evening. The fire broke out at a home on Mayfair ...

A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. CREDIT: Photo by Liu Wei/Xinhua via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per ...