Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter’s superstorms generate intense lightning, forming a powerful and complex electrical weather system.

FILE - In this March 6, 2017 file photo, lightning strikes near the barn on the Taylor farm near Lawrence, Kan. Lightning used to kill about 300 Americans a year, but lightning deaths are on pace to ...

The redwood splintered, sending branches onto buildings on Oakmont Drive early Friday, the first day of a three-day storm ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — A fatal lightning strike was reported Wednesday near Waukesha, according to the National Weather Service.

A woman is receiving burn unit treatment at UCHealth in Aurora after being struck by lightning in Superior last week.

Authorities are continuing to investigate how a possible lightning strike left several families affected in East Laredo.

Firefighters in Macomb Township were called out early Wednesday to respond to lightning strikes at two separate homes during ...