Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo flashes up to nine hours a night, 160 nights a year. A new model predicts strikes three months in ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

On Jupiter, lightning jerks and jolts a lot like it does on Earth. Jovian lightning emits radio wave pulses that are typically separated by about one millisecond, researchers report May 23 in Nature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning strikes behind cactus at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert as a storm hits the Valley on July 10, 2021.

Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has ...

Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree, scientifically ...

On top of a Swiss mountain, a car-sized laser has helped guide lightning from the sky to the ground. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd ...

A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night across a large swath of the world’s surface. By Nicholas Bakalar Lightning comes and goes in ...