This rare and mysterious phenomenon, often described ... scientists have struggled to explain the exact nature of ball lightning, leading some to question whether it is real, an optical illusion ...

The terrifying lightning and thunder phenomenon that Lucknow witnessed in the wee hours of September 11 is the kind never seen before. Although lightning with thunderstorms are not unusual ...

The very impressive natural phenomenon of lightning has been considered from the oldest times of humanity as a sign of power and as an instrument of punishment in the hands of the gods. The ancient ...

They do not explain, for instance ... adding that it happened at Pompeii. If such a phenomenon as lightning, falling from a cloudless sky, is disbelieved by men of science, may not the ...

Pick up!'" Just two hours before those calls, at 11:53 p.m. EST (04:53 GMT), asteroid-spotting telescopes in Arizona's ...

Jeff Swensen / Stringer/Getty Simply put, thundersnow is snowfall accompanied by thunder and lightning ... describes it as a "rare weather phenomenon" on its website. The ingredients for ...

Researchers from USTC have uncovered how convection intensity drives corona discharges at thunderstorm cloud tops. A research team from the (USTC), led by Professors Jiuhou Lei and Baoyou Zhu, along ...

You can add another life-killing phenomenon to the list of deadly byproducts attributable to cars: increased lightning strikes. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that in the ...

It’s estimated that only one in a million lightning strikes produces the ball lightning phenomenon, which makes it impossible to study in nature. Though it's rare, ball lighting is so stunning ...